Illegal Pet Trade and Hunting- How it affects Orang-utans

More than 500 of Borneo’s orangutans are trafficked illegally in the Indonesian market every
year, while rampant hunting is predicted to threaten to make the species extinct in the next 50 years, said an activist.
“Those traded are their babies. Hunters kill the mothers in order to catch them,” said Arbi Valentinus of the Orangutan Conservation Service Program (OCSP).
Valentinus said that if the orangutan hunting was not stopped, the species would extinct in the next 50 years. It is estimated that the orangutan`s habitat in the Kalimantan region continues to decrease by about 3 sq. km. per year, making the animal one of the endangered species
An orangutan expert from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jito Sugardjito, said there were only four great ape species in the world, three of which were found in Africa while the other one in Indonesia and Malaysia, namely orangutans. Recent estimates indicate that approximately 63,000 orangutans remain in the wild.
(Sources: Antara , Xinhua, OC staff)

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