3.++Causes+of+decline+in+numbers

** Kate Stevenson: Orang-utan **

· ** Development: ** A proposed road through the Gunung Leuser National Park which threatens the last stronghold · ** Permits: ** //Forests are continued to be logged but plantations are not being planted//. //Permits are still being given to clearing virgin forest despite cleared land being available//  || [|ICUN Website Link]WWF Factsheet Link || (IUCN, 2009) (World Wildlife Fund, 2006), || · The wetlands drained to the extent that tree roots could not support them and all the trees died · In 1997 massive fires swept through Borneo releasing 30% of the world’s carbon emissions for the year · Approximately 10,000 orang-utans were lost. || Apes in Danger - Motion Picture || (Meadows, 2007) || · Some are kept by households as status symbols · Captured for the entertainment industry || WWF Factsheet Link || (World Wildlife Fund, 2006), ||
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 * **Cause 1:** Habitat Loss and Conflict with Humans ||  · ** Logging ** – legal and illegal for overseas markets and for agriculture including rubber, oil, palm and pulp plantations
 * **Cause 2**: Natural Disasters following tampering with habitat ||  · The government cleared wetlands for rice production and dug canals to drain soil – but peat soil was not fit to grow rice
 * **Cause 3**: Poaching – illegal pet trade despite legal protection since 1931 ||  · Some are still hunted for food

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