Thursday, August 6, 2009



The Orang Utans need your help. Here's why.


It is not just the orangutan that is in danger - worldwide, other great apes, including the chimpanzees and gorillas, also endangered by extinction if none action are taken to save their habitats.


The orangutan population within the Indonesian island of Sumatra in 1996 was measured at approximately 10,000 kilometre per square inches. Nowadays, these number are reduced to less than 6,000 kilometer per square inches. In Borneo, less than 15,000 orangutans remain from the original estimation of orangutans which are 20,000 orangutans, about 12 years ago. These are the last two remaining homes of orangutans, worldwide. Almost 80% of their original habitats across South-East Asia, where they live, are now gone as a result of forest fires, natural disasters, land clearing for human development, mining, and illegal poaching.


Study shows that, if the goverment and citizens don't lend a hand and cooperate together to conserve and reserve the habitats of orangutans, less than 10 years, orangutans will face with extinctions, just like the dinosaurs 25 billion years ago

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