Illegal logging is now greater than legal timber production in Indonesia. Notes to Editors Indonesia contains ten per cent of the world's remaining tropical forests. Over 70 per cent of Indonesia's original frontier forests have been lost. Wild orangutan numbers have fallen by 50 per cent in the last decade and only between 15-25,000 are left. Indonesia is home to 80 per cent of the world's remaining orangutans.
Habitat loss poses the greatest threat to orangutan survival.
Around 80 per cent of the orangutan's forest habitat has been destroyed in the last two decades. Tanjung Puting National Park provides the only protected orangutan habitat in Central Kalimantan. Gunung Leuser National Park in northern Sumatra contains orangutans, Sumatran tigers, clouded leopards and sun bears. A report by the Indonesia-UK Tropical Forest Management Programme found illegal logging to be greater than legal timber production in Indonesia. Telapak is an independent environmental non-profit group based in Bogor, Indonesia.