Sentences with phrase «killing orangutans»

Or tuck into your bowl of Cheerios happily knowing that doing so won't be helping General Mills contribute to killing orangutans and other endangered species, nor trampling on

The message: Palm oil — an ingredient in many Nestle products — is killing orangutans by destroying their habitat, the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.

The latter requires public awareness and education, more effective law enforcement, and also more studies as to why people kill orangutans in the first place.»

But the best habitat — about 7 square kilometers of low - land forest — is not protected, and villagers sometimes kill orangutans that raid gardens.

Also most people who do kill orangutans in Kalimantan kill only one or a few of the animals in their lifetimes, according to the survey.

One possible silver lining is that the study found that only a small number of people reported killing an orangutan.

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People also kill adult orangutans to steal their babies for the international pet trade.

«Orangutan killing is likely the number one threat to orangutans,» says study coauthor Serge Wich, a biologist and ecologist at Liverpool John Moores University in England.

«Orangutans are flexible and can survive to some extent in a mosaic of forests, plantations, and logged forest, but only when they are not killed,» Wich says.

«So, in addition to protection of forests, we need to focus on addressing the underlying causes of orangutan killing.

Tapanuli orangutans live on the brink of extinction due to road construction, illegal forest clearing and killings by villagers and hunters, the scientists say.

«We really need to acknowledge that killing of orangutans is a big issue.»

Instead, most of the lost orangutans were deliberately killed.

Then, in 2013, villagers killed an adult male orangutan after it invaded a garden.

The survey results suggest that between 750 and 1,790 Bornean orangutans are killed each year in Kalimantan — «high enough to pose a serious threat to the continued existence of orangutans in Kalimantan,» according to the study.

Scientists estimate that if more than than one percent of female orangutans in a given population are killed in a year, that population will go extinct — a figure that doesn't bode well for the Kalimantan apes.

Producing these fuels has a huge impact on the environment, with an estimated 100,000 orangutans killed on oil palm plantations on Borneo.