2B+Endangered+Orangutans


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Southeast Asian Rainforest ** Abiotic Factors ** Southeast Asia is a 3,100 mile long chain of about 20,000 islands strung between Asia and Australia. It covers an area of 1,112,000 square miles, almost twice the size of Alaska. The area lies from latitude 20° north and 16° south, and longitude 95° to 105° east. The average daily temperature varies from 70°F to 90°F. Humidity is always high. The orangutan exists in only two forest Borneo and Sumatra forests and their habitat is being destroyed. Biotic Factors ** // Animals: // · Bengal Tiger · Common Palm Civet · Jambu Fruit Dove · Dawn Bat · Orangutans · Proboscis Monkey · Silvery Gibbon · Slender Loris · Sumatran Rhinoceros · Waglar’s Pit Viper // Plants: // · Bengal Bamboo · Jambu · Kapok Tree · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Strangler Figs · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Tualang
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;"> Habitat loss · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Uncontrolled wild fires are a big threat · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Nearly 2 million hectares of land were burnt in Indonesia in 1997 · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Thousands of fires occurred mainly in west and central Kalimantan and southern Sumatra. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">160 logging companies were part of the reason the wild fires started · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">46 of these companies were investigated fully · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Thousands of hectares were affected by the fires in Sabah and Sarawak n Malaysia.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">Hunting · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Orangutans are being killed for food · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">They are also being hunted in retaliation when they move into agricultural areas and destroy crops. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Their food is being hunted · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Females are most often hunted · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Because of food shortages, the species has become an easy target for hunters · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%;">are often kept as pets · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%;">there has been an increase in orangutan skulls in local towns. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"> Illegal Trade · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">An estimated 1,000 orangutans may have been imported into Taiwan for the pet trade between 1985 and 1990. · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Orangutans have also been reported in Kalimantan where both live and dead orangutans are sold. · <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Skulls can fetch up to US$70 in towns.

<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The importance of the rain forest is for oxygen. The rain forest is also a habitat for some organisms. Like the orangutan the dawn bat and the Bengal tiger. There is also some cures out there for cancer and medicine and if we cut the rain forest down then we will all get sick and die. This is why the rain forest is important to our community.
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The way we can stop or slow down the threats to the orangutans are by making a law that states that you can only cut down trees if you plant one after, to stop habitat loss, And by recycling paper for fewer trees being cut down. And for the wild fires you can put in irrigation for a hose to put out the fires. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Orangutans are being killed for food and that is not right because orangutans are going extinct the way we can stop this is by making it illegal to hunt the orangutan and no more than a few of the orangutans food. Illegal trading how we can stop this is by putting police officers and forest rangers out into the Asian rain forest to stop the illegal trading.
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[] Original image: ' [|Rainforest living up to its name] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/24934185@N00/154053611 by: Original image: ' [|Olympic National Park - Hoh Valley - Hall of Mosses Trail, Hemlocks growing on a stump] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/23209605@N00/430261718 by: Original image: ' [|Olympic National Park - Hoh Valley - Hall of Mosses Trail, Hemlocks growing on a stump] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/23209605@N00/430261718 by: Original image: ' [|monteverde] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/11669957@N06/2460045857 by: Ryan Kozie Original image: ' [|Rainforest living up to its name] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/24934185@N00/154053611 by: Original image: ' [|Sumantra - Bukit Lawang - 2002 (48)] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/36383759@N07/3361956472 by: Original image: ' [|Sumantra - Bukit Lawang - 2002 (42)] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/36383759@N07/3361953260 by: Original image: ' [|Sumantra - Bukit Lawang - 2002 (40)] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/36383759@N07/3361952022 by:
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