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News Archive for 2001 January

OFI and the Indonesian Rainforest Crisis featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes II

January 6th, 2001 by Dr. Nancy Briggs.

The CBS News magazine 60 Minutes II, broadcast a report featuring the orangutan’s plight, Camp Leakey and Dr Galdikas on January 2nd. “The Last Place on Earth: The closest living relatives to humankind are the great apes, gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans. Their DNA is about 95 percent the same as man. Does that mean apes have anything to tell us about being human? In the case of the orangutan you’ll be surprised. “What we know [...]

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