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The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape

Inside Climate News · By Nicholas Kusnetz · last updated
When a new orangutan species was found near a Chinese-owned hydrodam in Indonesia, scientists and advocates launched a campaign to block the project. Then some who spoke against it lost their jobs and ability to work in the area—and, in the case of one activist, his life.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Planet China: Fourth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.