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This undated handout photograph taken by the Orangutan Information Centre and released on June 10, 2026 shows the Tapanuli orangutans over a tree in the Batang Toru forest in Indonesia's North Sumatra.
Climate change-fuelled landslides have wiped out nearly one in 10 of the world's rarest great ape species on Indonesia's Sumatra island, scientists say.
A single weather event last November pushed the Tapanuli orangutan - of which there are fewer than 800 left in the wild - even closer to extinction, according to a study published in the science journal Current Biology.
An estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans died as a result of mudslides triggered by heavy rains during Cyclone Senyar - about 11 percent of the total living in the region, or seven percent of the estimated overall wild population.
