In the US, at least, a press release that comes out over a three-day holiday weekend can suffer a dismal fate. That may be why so little coverage emerged for a report on a genuinely dismal fate that may await the red men of the forests of Sumatra and Borneo. In the journal Oryx researchers with the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, and colleagues report that orangutan populations are falling fast. That’s not new news, of course, but the numbers here may be firmer than most.

AP’s Michael Casey got it on the wire; it may have reached a wide readership.  Other coverage include The Scotsman Jeremy Watson ;
Grist for the Mill: Great Ape Trust Press Release ;

-CP

This entry was posted on Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm and is filed under Environment & Energy Stories. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.