Orangutans Facing Extinction Logging has been increasing in recent years, moving away from the river edges into the interior of the forests where the orangutans live, Cheryl Knott said in a telephone interview. Knott studies orangutans in Indonesia's Gunung Palung National Park, home to about 2,500 of the animals, about one-tenth of those in the world. Orangutans live only in Indonesia and Malaysia, said Knott, whose work is sponsored by the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society. While the government of Indonesia has a commitment to protect orangutans, sending in national police periodically, the loggers return when the police...