The Tapanuli orangutan: Status, threats, and steps for improved conservation

[...]because of the immediate threat posed to the new species by the development of a hydrodam to generate electricity (Sloan, Supriatna, Campbell, Alamgir, & Laurance, ). [...]orangutans that venture into community plantations have been killed as a result of human‐orangutan conflict (Nater et al., ). [...]the Tapanuli orangutan was the latest extant great ape to be discovered, but given its extremely small population numbers and current and projected threats, it might well be the first one to go extinct.