Climate change-fuelled landslides push rarest great ape closer to extinction
New research involving scientists from Nottingham Trent University reveals that climate change-driven extreme rainfall and landslides in Sumatra have killed an estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans – around 7% of the global population of the world’s rarest great ape. The findings highlight how increasingly severe weather events are accelerating biodiversity loss and pushing already vulnerable species closer to extinction.