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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: New orangutan population found in Indonesia By ROBIN McDOWELL,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 29 minutes ago JAKARTA, Indonesia - Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia _ perhaps as many as 2,000 _ giving a rare boost to one of the world's most critically endangered great apes. ADVERTISEMENT A team surveying forests nestled between jagged, limestone cliffs on the eastern edge of Borneo island counted 219 orangutan nests, indicating a "substantial" number of the animals, said Erik Meijaard, a senior ecologist at the U.S.-based The Nature Conservancy. "We can't say for sure how many," he said, but even the most cautious estimate would indicate "several hundred at least, maybe 1,000 or 2,000 even." The team also encountered an adult male, which angrily threw branches as they tried to take photos, and a mother and child. There are an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 90 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in neighboring Malaysia. The countries are the world's top producers of palm oil, used in food, cosmetics and to meet growing demands for "clean-burning" fuels in the U.S. and Europe. Rain forests, where the solitary animals spend almost all of their time, have been clear-cut and burned at alarming rates to make way for lucrative plantations. The steep topography, poor soil and general inaccessibility of the rugged limestone mountains appear to have shielded the area from development, at least for now, said Meijaard. Its trees include those highly sought after for commercial timber. Birute Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who has spent nearly four decades studying orangutans in the wild, said most of the remaining populations are small and scattered, which make them especially vulnerable to extinction. "So yes, finding a population that science did not know about is significant, especially one of this size," she said, noting that those found on the eastern part of the island represent a rare subspecies, the black Borneon orangutan, or Pongo pygmaeus morio. The 700 square mile (2500 square kilometer) jungle escaped the massive fires that devastated almost all of the surrounding forests in the late 1990s. The blazes were set by plantation owners and small scale farmers and exacerbated by the El Nino droughts. Nardiyono, who headed The Nature Conservancy's weeklong survey in December, said it was unusual to come face-to-face with even one of the elusive creatures in the wild _ to encounter three was extraordinary. Before this expedition, he'd seen just five in as many years. "It could be the density is very high because after the fires, the orangutans all flocked to one small area," Nardiyono said. Conservationists say the most immediate next step will be working with local authorities to protect the area. Noviar Andayani, head of the Indonesian Primate Association and Orangutan Forum, said the new discovery points to how much work still needs to be done to come up with accurate population assessments, considered vital to determining a species' vulnerability to extinction. "There are many areas that still have not been surveyed," she said, adding that 18 non-governmental conservation groups have just started work on an in-depth census based on interviews with people who spend time in the forests. They include villagers and those working on plantations or within logging concessions. "We hope this will help fill in a few more gaps," said Andayani, adding that preliminary tests in areas where populations are known, indicate that the new interview-based technique could provide a clearer picture than nest tallies. "Right now the information and data we have about orangutans is still pretty rudimentary." 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