% pubman genre = article @article{item_3009650, title = {{Orangutan populations are certainly not increasing in the wild}}, author = {Meijaard, Erik and Sherman, Julie and Ancrenaz, Marc and Wich, Serge A. and Santika, Truly and Voigt, Maria}, language = {eng}, issn = {0960-9822}, doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.052}, publisher = {Cell Press}, address = {London, UK}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-11}, abstract = {{Summary{\textless}br{\textgreater}A recent report, published by the Government of Indonesia with support from the Food and Agricultural Organization and Norway{\textquoteright}s International Climate and Forest Initiative, states that orangutan populations (Pongo spp.) have increased by more than 10{\textpercent} in Indonesia from 2015 to 2017, exceeding the government target of an annual 2{\textpercent} population increase [1]. This assessment is in strong contrast with recent publications that showed that the Bornean orangutan (P. pygmaeus) lost more than 100,000 individuals in the past 16 years [2] and declined by at least 25{\textpercent} over the past 10 years [3]. Furthermore, recent work has also demonstrated that both Sumatran orangutans (P. abelii) and the recently described Tapanuli orangutan (P. tapanuliensis) lost more than 60{\textpercent} of their key habitats between 1985 and 2007, and ongoing land use changes are expected to result in an 11{\textendash}27{\textpercent} decline in their populations by 2020 4, 5. Most scientific data indicate that the survival of these species continues to be seriously threatened by deforestation and killing 4, 6, 7 and thus all three are Critically Endangered under the International Union for Conservation of Nature{\textquoteright}s Red List.}}, journal = {{Current Biology}}, volume = {28}, number = {21}, pages = {R1241--R1242}, }