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Originally Posted by BonBon  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. |
Similar case with polar bears. It makes me so sad to think about what they are going through and that they may be extinct...because of humans!
