Orangutan+Zach+M.

My animal is an orangutan. It lives in the forests of Asia, but specifically in Indonesia. It eats fruits and trees, but occasionally likes to eat birds and insects. It doesn't have any natural predators, unless you count humans. We are the reason these little primates are losing their lives. They get pushed out of their habitats due to deforestation. They begin to reproduce around age 13, and gestation takes about 8 months. They raise their young until they reach maturity, which is around 10 for boys and 12 for girls.

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The main threat to orangutan's is us humans deforesting their forests. They are being pushed out of their habitats. The IUCN status of orangutans is they are endangered. That means they are close to being extinct and we need to keep a major watch on them. Luckily someone does, and that is the Borean Orangutan Survival group is taking orangutans that have lost their mother into their own care. They want to teach them how to live on their own before something bad were to happen to them.



The best way i could think of to raise money would to do something simple like a carwash.Things that are easy and simple like that in my opinion work the best. It would be good to publicize the orangutans, like have the cute baby pictures hanging around or even adopt one and use it as a mascot. Make all the profits go to the Bornean Orangutan Survival foundation. I'm sure they would appreciate every single penny.

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bibliography:

http://orangutan1.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/fun-facts-on-orangutans/ http://worldwildlife.org/species/directory?sort=extinction_status&direction=desc http://www.ecomii.com/jeff-corwin/animals/full-list http://www.iucnredlist.org/ http://orangutan.or.id/