{"id":75588,"date":"2025-12-12T22:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/12\/indonesia-floods-extinction-level-rare-orangutan-tapanuli"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:42:26","slug":"indonesia-floods-were-extinction-level-disturbance-for-worlds-rarest-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75588","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia floods were \u2018extinction level\u2019 disturbance for world\u2019s rarest ape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservationists fear up to 11% of Tapanuli orangutan population perished in disaster that also killed 1,000 people<\/p>\n<p>The skull of a Tapanuli orangutan, caked in debris, stares out from a tomb of mud in North Sumatra, killed in catastrophic flooding that swept through Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The late November floods have been an \u201cextinction-level disturbance\u201d for the world\u2019s rarest great ape, scientists have said, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/12\/indonesia-floods-extinction-level-rare-orangutan-tapanuli\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservationists fear up to 11% of Tapanuli orangutan population perished in disaster that also killed 1,000 peopleThe skull of a Tapanuli orangutan, caked in debris, stares out from a tomb of mud in North Sumatra, killed in catastrophic flooding that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,456,464,65,156,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-conservation","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-indonesia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75588\/revisions\/75589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}