orangutans

Orangutan means “Man of the Forest” in the Malay language. This name is appropriate considering how similar to humans they are, yet humans are the main threat towards the extinction of these great creatures. In prehistoric times, the number of orangutans in the world was about three hundred to four hundred thousand, and they ranged from China, all throughout Southeast Asia. Their present status is endangered, only twenty thousand left in the world. These orangutans …

…great intelligent creatures can be stopped. Orangutans have lives and go through exactly what we go through, and people are starting to make this aware to us. If we kill off these great animals, for little reasons, like a little bit more land for farming, and wood we are headed nowhere. Things like this kill many animals, and by killing an endangered specie it is moving us towards the extinction of these animals we hurt.