Orang Hutan ? "Person of the Forest"
Did you know that each feeding one of the world's greatest environmental disasters and acts of slaughter and genocide in history?
Borneo and Sumatra are two of the richest in the world, but they have the longest list of endangered species. This list includes the wonderful orang-utan. These islands of Southeast Asia are very rich in diversity, containing about 20,000 species of flowering plants,3,000 species of trees and 300,000 species of animals and thousands more discovered every year.
Despite this surprising and delicate ecosystem biodiversity, a territory the size of 300 football fields of Indonesian and Malaysian rain forest each time deleted to make way for palm oil plantations. This corresponds to the size of Croatia deleted every day!
Palm oil plantations are taking in the habitat of the endangered rain forest in the orang-utan, with over 80% of their habitat has alreadydestroyed in the last 20 years.
Deforestation is simple: The land was acquired by the Indonesian / Malaysian Government to rich foreigners or companies. First are the forest of all its valuable timber, teak, ironwood, ebony, mahogany, sandalwood and other valuable species.The more than 70 remaining trees, shrubs and debris are then set on fire. The land is then cleared and flattened with heavy machinery in order to make room for plantations of palm oil. Then, the poor, local, indigenousHuman beings are the owners of the plantations, where to plant and maintain trees of palm oil to pay a little busy.
It is estimated that 6-12 orang-utans are killed every day to create beautiful creatures are plantations.These killed by falling trees, the broken machine, burned by the fire is lit in the process of deforestation, beaten to death, shot dead , buried alive and set on fire, all in the name of palm oil. As palm oil plantations are also orang-utansthreatened by mining, forest fires and poaching.
Government data showed that more than 50,000 orang-utans because of deforestation have been killed over the past two decades.
Many of the Orang-utans killed mother and her children are kidnapped and share, sold in small cages and the illegal pet trade. Many children are also in the entertainment industry where they are up in the Asian tourist parks and circuses locked lived a life of humiliation, violence andExploitation.
Scientists say that if this pattern of destruction continues, these gentle, intelligent creatures extinct in the wild within 3 to 10 years. It is also believed that their jungle habitat is to be completely gone within 40 years.
These large, confident, red monkeys are our closest relatives, sharing 97% of our DNA. They are very intelligent and have the ability to reason and think together with almost all other human feelings and emotions. Orang-utan is an importantPart of the rainforest. They help spread the seeds of many trees, in fact, some trees germinate only after they passed through the gut an orang-utan. These monkeys are very important for the fragile ecosystems of Borneo and Sumatra. They are to maintain the rich biodiversity of flora and fauna in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Orang-utans can not live without the rain forest, rain forest and the Orang-utans can not live without.
The plantations are destroying theHabitat for many native endangered animals in Indonesia and Malaysia, such as the Sumatran tiger, Asian rhinos, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Sun Bear, pygmy elephant, clouded leopards and golden monkeys.
About 28 million tons of palm oil is produced each year for the origin of food, with almost all of which are not sustainable, crude palm oil is from what was once lush, green rain forest of Borneo and Sumatra.
Palm oil is also used in some bio-fuels. The oil is mixed with aNumber of liquid fuels and to create a "Eco-Friendly" Bio-fuel. If this "Eco-Friendly" Bio-fuel has voted in our stations, the future of our primate cousins ??is very dark orange.
In supermarkets, uses 80% of baked goods, confectionery, cosmetics and detergents, the crude palm oil and the average person 10 kg of palm oil per year. The fact is that over 40% of the product in their household included palm oil, and almost everything in it bears traces of saturated fat of palm treesOil.
However, we do not know if you buy products that contribute to the deaths of hundreds of innocent animals every day. You see, businesses, the palm oil for their products under the label "vegetable oil" or more than 20 other names hidden.
Not to mention the fact that palm oil is extremely high saturated fat and very bad for your argument is that we must health.The palm oil these days, to certain foods and body products. But what about 30 years ago? BackThen, the palm oil was not used in almost as many products as it is today, so why should such a high demand in our world be now? We do not need palm oil. There are many alternatives to oil, but unfortunately not as cheap or efficient, why companies are reluctant to change just is crazy.
Palm oil plantations are also a shocking impact on our planet. When the plantation workers set fire, the remaining trees, shrubs and debris generated, there is a large amount of mass of smoketoxic to the earth. This proved to be the second largest contributor of greenhouse gases on the planet.
Another important reason why we need to preserve the rain forests of Borneo and Sumatra is the deal with oxygen. The leaves of this ancient tropical trees filter carbon dioxide from the air, and in turn produces clean air and oxygen for us to breathe. This means that at a time when there is more pollution from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than ever before, we needmore trees to filter carbon dioxide and create for us cleaner air to breathe. Instead, we are recording the trees at an alarming rate.
With the purchase of products, crude palm oil, help remove species such as orang-utans, and put our planet in an ecological disaster of major projects.
Orang-utan numbers are falling at a dangerously high speed, all for our sugar, snacks and ready meals scented, chemical-filled soaps and shampoos.
ThinkFollow to do the next time your weekly shopping, the consequences not only for orang-utans and other animals, but for us as humanity, because it can not survive without the rain forests.
"Palm oil is the biggest threat to the survival of orang-utans in the wild."
~ Lone Droscher-Nielsen
"It's hard to describe (the deforestation of Borneo). But for me is like a man-made tsunami."
~ Lone Droscher-Neilsen
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Source: http://education-nature.chailit.com/status-of-the-orang-utan-by-palm-oil-in-borneo-and-sumatra.html
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