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Originally Posted by Jennxling  This makes me soooo sad!!!  It makes me feel so hopeless of the future...why can't people see that we need to appreciate and love other animals and not kill them for their fins, intestines, fur, etc.  |
In this case they aren't technically killing the oragutans. They're destroying their habitat - the rain forest - in order to put in more and more lucrative oil-palm plantations.
One of the articles Jim linked states that "Several studies have found a significant reduction (on the order of 80 percent for plants and 80-90 percent for mammals, birds, and reptiles) in biological diversity following forest conversion to oil palm plantation." So it's by no means only orangutans being affected by this.
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