Fears grow that world’s rarest apes were swept away in Sumatran floods

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Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment correspondent, BBC World Service

Getty Images A large orangutan in a tree, partly obscured behind leaves — The Tapanuli orangutan was only discovered by scientists to be a separate species in 2017 – distinct from the Sumatran and Bornean apes

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