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Threats to Wildlife


 * There are many animals that are unique Indonesia including the Orangutan, Sumatran Tiger, the Gibbon, the Komodo Dragon and the Rhino.
 * Some threats towards these unique animals would be things like climate change, habitat loss, introduced species, poaching and hunting and pollution. These thing harm different animals in different ways but never the less they put them at risk of extinction.

Orangutan
 * The Orangutan is endangered because of people clearing forests and planting palm trees for palm oil. This leaves them with minimal amounts of food and no place to live. They are also endangered because of poaching. It eventually ends up taking many lives of the orangutans and if it continues, will eventually wipe them out completely. There are roughly 30,000 left in the wild and the numbers are dropping fast.



Sumatran Tiger
 * The Sumatran Tiger is extremely endangered because of destruction of habitat and poaching. There is about 500-600 left in the wild which makes them very endangered. Their body parts are sold on the black market illegally and it's one of the main reasons why they are hunted. They live in a habitat of lowland forest to mountain forest that consists of evergreen swamps and rain forests. People are clearing this land leaving no place for them to live and become very vulnerable to poachers.



Rhino
 * The rhino is endangered because poachers hunt and kill them for their valuable horns. They are worth a lot on the black market and are very popular to buy. They are also used for chinese medicine. Like most other endangered animals, their habitat is being destroyed for numerous products such as wood and oil. There are three types of rhino. The Javan rhino, the sumatran rhino and the black rhino and all of them are endangered for the same reasons. There are less than 5000 of these three rhinos left in the wild across asia and their numbers are declining dramatically making them extremely endangered, especially the Javan rhino with roughly around 50 known left in the wild.