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Threats To Indonesias Unique Wildlife 

=Many unique Indonesian wildlife species are threatened and endangered. These species are Sumatran Tigers, Orangutans, the Javan and Sumatran Rhinoceros, the flying squirrel, and many more. Destruction of habitat, poaching, pollution, disease, predation, and introduced species, are all the reasons why these species are endangered. = =Take the Sumatran Tiger for instance =
 * The Sunda island group of tigers consists of the Sumatran tiger, and the now extinct Trinil tiger, Bali tiger and Javan tiger.
 * Large scale exploitation of the tigers habitat means that tigers are being forced to move else where.
 *  Pushes the tigers closer to human settlement because food becomes harder to find.
 * The tiger hunts Wild Pig, Tapir, Deer, Fowl, Fish and monkeys.
 *  Logging and farming for palm oil the tigers prey animals leave the area and could starve to death.
 * Tigers come into conflict with farmers of domestic animals such as cows, goats and sheep.
 * The tigers hunt these animals without knowledge of what farmers do to tigers that hunt their livestock... They kill them.
 * Poachers are also a massive problem.
 * Poaching tigers is illegal so poachers deal the tigers meat, hide, whiskers, claws, bones and teeth on the black market for a very high price.
 * Despite the massive effort to stamp poaching out once and for all with the aid of organisations declaring national parks where hunting is not allowed hasn't discouraged poachers not one bit. Today on the black market there is an increasing demand for tiger bone:(

Check out this website: http://www.honoluluzoo.org/tiger.htm =The Orangutan =


 * The orangutan is located in Indonesia and Malaysia, on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
 * There are two species of the orang utan. The sumatran orangutan, and the Bornean orang-utan.
 * They are endangered because of destruction of habitat, and poaches.
 * The poaches don't only kill them for their parts, they also sell them as pets.
 * Destruction of habit is a serious problem.
 * Thousands of trees are getting cut down for palm oil plantations, which the orangutans need for moving around forests (swinging from tree branch to tree branch), for food and for making their nests to sleep for the night.
 * In 1900, there were 315 000 orangutans living in the wild. Today, there are less than 50 000.

<span style="background-color: #ff9a00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Check out this website: http://www.orangutan.org.uk/

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 * The Grizzled Leaf Monkey is endangered.
 * There are less than a 1000 of these little cuties left in the wild.
 * They reside on the indonesian island of Java.
 * Only 4 percent of their original habitat is left and it is still diminishing due to deforestation and palm oil farming.
 * They mainly move around during the daylight hours and barely leave the tree tops to forage on the ground.
 * Baby Grizzled Leaf Monkeys are dependant on their mothers for two years and after that barely come into contact with each other.

= Threats to Indonesian animals = Indonesia has the largest amount of animals that are endangered. Indonesian animals are endangered because of many reasons:
 * Poaching
 * Destruction of habitat
 * Illegal trade
 * Used as pets
 * Poisoned
 * Trapped
 * Pollution
 * Killed for food
 * Natural disasters
 * Back street entertainment
 * Circuses
 * Animal testing
 * Illegal fights
 * Introduced species
 * Climate Change

<span style="background-color: #ff9a00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Check out this website:

http://www.animalport.com/endangered-animals/endangered-indonesian-animals.html

SO HOW CAN WE HELP???

Check out this website: http://siesfund.org/

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