Warner+3B Orangutans

Endangered Orangutans Alissa, Alexis, Daniel

__ Abiotoc Factors: __ __ Biotic Factors: __ Climate- 3,100 miles long with about 20,000 islands strung between Asia and Australia, winds called monsoons, four seasons winter northeast monsoon, southern summer monsoon, and two intermonsoons, they get typhoons and other severe weather IN ALL, THEY HAVE A TROPICAL MOIST CLIMATE.

Humidity- is most important as a fire- weather factor in the layer near the ground, where it influences both fuels and fire behavior. Orangutans like high humidity do to there thick layers of fur so it normally stays at around 100% Humidity.

Orangutans have very thick furs but don't mind heat or the fact of precipitation in the air. The temperature they are you used to is between 60 degrees fahrenheit and 85.

With Orangutans having very thick fur and them need to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">live at a high density area that gives the warm wet air <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">that they like making them like on mountain tops with <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">forest areas that you can find in Asia.



__ Importance of Ecosystem: __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Orangutans can survive in degraded disturbed tropical rainforests but they simply can’t survive in any other ecosystem. They need this ecosystem because they need they types of food in order to get protein so they can feed the young to keep their species alive. As well as helping their young they as well help other animals such as birds by breaking open fruits and such for birds to feed off of. Therefore if we killed off Orangutans such as we are doing than it would have an effect on several other things and it would cause problems throughout the ecosystem. __ Threats to Ecosystem: __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Humans are the biggest threat to orangutans because they are taking <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">away the habitats and kidnapping baby orangutans to sell or kill them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Palm oil palm plantations there are 11 million hectares of them globally <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and they are taking over rainforests just like the one orangutans live in, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it causes clear-cutting, forest fires and greater access to traders and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hunters. Orangutans live in the areas that are good for oil palm, fertile <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lowland next to rivers, they reduce the amount of natural habitat the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">orangutans have to live in, increased poaching, fires not only wipe out <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">their land to live but many orangutans burn to death when caught <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in these fires, and sometimes farmers and plantation owners shoot the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">orangutans because they are “pests”.