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How would u feel if someone came in your neighborhood and destroyed your homes? So how would you expect the Sumatran orangutans to feel?
Sumatran Orangutans homes in North Sumatra are being destroyed on a high rate, the main problem is due to fire and other development. The plan to build a road in north Sumatra threatens one of the largest-numbers of areas of the orangutan’s habitat. Not only do fires burn down many areas of orangutan’s habitat, but alot of these apes were thought to have burned to death not able to escape the flames of the fire.
Although they were legal laws to protect the orangutans in Indonesia since 1931, they are still being captured from the wild and kept in houses as status symbols. In some regions, the Sumatrans were hunted for food. Research by traffic, the global wildlife monitoring network shows that the lack of the illegal profit taking causes a serious hazard to orangutans. Female orangutans give birth only to one infant at a time, to either every eight or every nine years. Scientists estimate that only 1% of females orangutans have been l...

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