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Yet even more to ponder over...
Fact number 16:
Illegal logging and fires are making the native habitat rain forests of the orangutans disappear at an unsustainable rate.
Fact number 17:
When the rain forest is cut down or burned, orangutans are often forced to enter plantations in order to find food where humans kill or capture them.
Fact number 18:
In Asia there is a big market for orangutan babies as pets.
Fact number 19:
Orangutans are often smuggled to other countries in the large freighters loaded with the very timber that was once their home and many die en route.
Fact number 20:
Illnesses, stress, depression and death are typical of captive orangutans.
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| Smuggled infant orangutan found dead. |
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| A baby orangutan clings to his dead mother. |
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| Innocent but behind bars. |
Photos taken from
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0918-profauna.html
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/images/orangutan_report/slides/7_baby_clings_to_dead_mum.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4918574.stm