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Orangutan presentation
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Orangutan Habitat
Orangutans may lose nearly all their tropical forest habitat within 15
years, unless urgent action is taken now, to end
rampant illegal logging.
DeforestationIn 2006, Indonesia had the world's
highest deforestation rate. Preliminary figures indicate that the
nation may have lost more than 30,000 square kilometres of forest -- one of the largest areas of forest loss
on record.
Greenhouse gas emissions released from burning and
forest conversion have made Indonesia the third
largest contributor to global warming.
Greenhouse gas emissions
Tanjung Puting National Park in southern Kalimantan on the island of
Borneo is 400,000 hectares and the largest protected expanse of coastal
tropical heath and peat swamp forest in southeast Asia.
It's also one of the biggest remaining habitats for the critically endangered
orangutan.
Tanjung PuttingNational Park
Oil palm has become the world's number one fruit crop, trouncing its nearest
competitor, the humble banana?
Oil palm is replacing tropical rainforests.
Over the past five years, logging of rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra has accelerated for
timber harvesting and oil palm plantations used for producing
palm oil, an increasingly important source of biofuel.
Western consumers are directly fuelling the destruction of
orangutan habitat and sensitive ecosystems as oil-palm plantations
now cover millions of hectares across
Malaysia and Indonesia.
The UN report, titled "The last stand of the orangutan:
State of emergency", estimates that more than 73
percent of all logging in Indonesia is illegal and that illicit
logging is now taking place, in 37 of the country's 41 national
parks.