Back Issue (Wildlife)
No. 2 Issue 2/2009 |
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| Brain Freeze |
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Palm Oil and the Orangutans
 To make way for oil palm plantations,
the homes and even the lives of
orangutans have been put in danger:
because the trees that make up their
natural habitat are gone, they can no
longer spend their time hanging happily
from branches or nosing out tasty fruits.
Today, the number of orangutans in
the wild is rapidly declining and the
species may become extinct within the
next 10 years!
The word “orangutan” is derived from
a Malay word meaning “person of the
forest”. Just how close are orangutans
to people? Well, they actually share 97
percent of our genetic makeup! So it’s our
responsibility to keep an eye open and do
what we can to help these species in peril.
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