Indonesian Orangutans Face Extinction

Anna Chan:
An Indonesian orangutan activist group staged a protest in capital Jakarta's main street today. Their concern... the shrinking habitat for the Asian orangutan. Here's more from Jakarta.

Four wildlife activists were dressed in orangutan costumes to show the plight of the primate. They believe the population has been so hard hit because they are running out of jungle habitat. Trees that make up the landscape are being chopped down and made into oil palm plantations.

On Wednesday the group predicted that orangutans could be extinct within three years if development continues.

[Hardi Baktiantoro, Center of Orangutan Protection]:
"The experts said that orangutan could be extinct in 2015, but we have our own opinion that predicts the orangutan will be extinct within two or three years from now."

Indonesia's jungles are a massive natural stores of carbon. But environmentalists say rampant cutting and burning of trees has made the country the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter.

[Hardi Baktiantoro, Center of Orangutan Protection]:
"According to COP field investigations, there is proof that Malaysian companies are destroying natural habitat, capturing and hunting orangutan in Indonesia. Maybe they are not doing it in Malaysia but yes, they are doing in Indonesia."

Indonesia and Malaysia together produced 83 percent of the world's palm oil in 2007.

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[Jenfucius]

Oragutans could be good for the Indonesian tourism industry.

[tikohuana]

hmm; so orang utan is a minority in indon as well? i guess so..after massacring

Aceh, Poso, Irian, Batak, Dayak, Chinese-Indo, Timor Leste

then jawa huana next target is orang utan!

[TheThankka]

This is not a matter of necessity, but this is due to greedy people. This is a tragedy.

[SanlianaCung]

my friend had been research orangutan's behaviour. Orangutan ate fruit, then planted the fruit's seed,then they back to the place where they planted the seed many years ago to harvest... they are guardian of the forest. But, when they back, the forest is gone, just palm trees, they though the palm trees is the trees from the seed that they planted. So palmoil business perspective them as pests and kill them even eat them! one parenting female died, mean all family death... what a greedy people!

[jordonanna]

who saw this video before you pressed play and thought the lady was going to speak another language? I sure did.

[junkintrunk55]

If these idiots dressed up like chimps got a rifle and went out and shot a few of the morons killing the great apes, it would change more than protesting. Sure it's a drastic solution, but drastic situations call for drastic measures.

[daud5221]

indonesia butuh

[NeonSunset23]

apa spesimen yang indah, saya berharap itu tidak punah

[mrconckey]

people are sick. most people think we should take a step back yet we keep fueling the machine.people think things are and will get better human rights the planet world politics but its not so the blind leading the deaf

[killswitch1193]

lmao