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You can find that info on their page eg https://www.orangutan.org.au/about-us/top/ https://www.orangutan.org.au/about-us/top/ Buying / leasing rainforest or l
by haihaibye 4y ago
You can find that info on their page eg
https://www.orangutan.org.au/about-us/top/ https://www.orangutan.org.au/about-us/top/
Buying / leasing rainforest or lobbying government for protection seems pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things, 11k wild oranghutans for 3.3M dollars last year is less than $300 per oranghutan per year
There are 70,000 humans per oranghutan so even though they are more genetically distant from us rarity should count
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