Orangutan Habitat

Orangutan Habitat

Threats to Orangutan Habitat

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Threats to Orangutan Habitat

1. The plantations of palm oil
2. Illegal logging
3. The illegal gold mines
4. Hunting
5. Wildfires

Fossils suggest that the distribution of orang-utans, once across South Asia to southern China. Lately, however, historical, stocks have been restricted to pockets of forests on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. The main factors in the award of this dramatic decline are climate change and hunting humans. During recent years, however, competition with humans for forest resources is largely responsible for population declines. In 1900, there were approximately 315000 orang-utans. Today, fewer than 50000 other se cree in nature. They are divided into small fragmented populations of all those who are not biologically viable (have a long-term chances of survival). Orang-utans have lost 80% of their habitat over the past twenty years. According to the World Bank, at current rates of deforestation, could not have left the lowland forests outside of protected areas in Kalimantan by 2010. Continued habitat loss could lead to the extinction of the orangutan habitat. Please read on to learn more about threats to orang-utans and their habitat ..

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