Spot+The+Orangutan



About Me: Name: Spot Age: 6 Attributes: I am a cute orangutan with thin red hair, he has a big nose and he is very cuddly  Offspring: No Way!!!!!! Status: Critically Endangered/single Location: orangutans live in the rain forests of Borneo and Northern Sumatra.

Favorites: Food: I love eating Durian, A very spiky fruit. I think it is very yummy, if that is not available I am happy with any fruit

Pastime: I love swinging in trees with all of my friends, we need to play on it while we can, humans are cutting down our home/habitat for palm oil which is a type of vegetable oil found in lots of food and household products.

Blog 1) my types numbers are going down rapidly and by 2012 I will be extinct in the wild, the main reason that my kind are endangered is palm oil, palm oil is an ingredient in lots of food products like biscuits, ice-cream, and chocolate. That is some yummy food there, but think about it every spoonful of ice-cream you put in your mouth, or piece of chocolate bar you eat, you are eating the orangutans habitat. Did you know that in Asia, 300 soccer fields are being destroyed every hour, that is a lot of trees and a lot of animals losing there home. How would you like it if animals came and took your house, your source of food and water, and then killed your family? That is what we are doing to them

2) please come and save us!!!!!!! My kind needs some serious heroes, my kind is dying out and soon there will be none of us left. Humans need to create products that don't include our home in it. That means palm oil free, another way you as humans could fix a problem that you made is that you can start recycling paper and other things that can be recycled, you could also stop littering so that we don't eat it and die.

3) There are lots of organizations that are trying to save the orangutan, some of these include the Australian orangutan project, they have done lots of things, to name a few they have made a website to inform people about all of the threats of orangutans, They also have made logging illegal in some places as well as poaching. Another organization helping orangutans is the Borneo orangutan Survival. This organization has done something very amazing, they bought lots of land and planted lots of trees and set it up to be a habitat for orangutans, that is such a kind thing to do.

Photo album orangutan habitat Baby orangutan Family of orangutans Map of orangutan habitat

Recourses http://www.orangutan.org.au/index.htm

http://www.mongabay.com/take-action/orangutans.html

http://www.orangutans.com.au/Default.aspx