Education English | Report Text : Orang Utans | A crisist exist for the orang utans. Orang utans are threatened by habitat destruction as people cut down trees for timber. Today, the survive only in the rainforest in Borneo and Sumatera Island. Their home is shared by many other endangered species such as tigers and rhinos. This forest is crossed by large rivers. Now, even their habitat on the remaining two islands threatened the loss of habitat is also the result of man's greed. The trade in baby orang utans continues to thrive today. Hundreds of infant oran utans are taken from the wild for the pet trade ecery year. This is done by killing the mother and taking the baby. When adult females are killed the babies can be sell and the skulls of the dead may used to create souvenirs that are sold illegally throughout Kalimantan.
It is estimate that 4 until 5 orang utans die for every baby reaching the market. They can die as a result of the trauma of seeing their mother killed. They can also die due to the poor condition in which they are kept following the capture.
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