The great ape scandal

The orang-utan could be extinct within 12 years and human greed is to blame.

Its natural habitat is rapidly disappearing because of the spread of plantations devoted to producing palm oil - a cheap ingredient found in hundreds of products sold in British supermarkets.

As Stanley Johnson discovers in Borneo, our weekly shop in the West is having a catastrophic impact on one of the world's most fascinating species.

The full report

"The great ape scandal" was a special report about the future of the orang-utan in Borneo, written by Stanley Johnson for The Daily Telegraph.

The following pages contain the whole of Stanley's special report with pictures of his adventure by David Birkin.

This special report has been reproduced with Stanley's kind permission.

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