There are many reasons why these populations of Orang Utan are becoming extinct from this world. The first reason is because of the reforestation. Although the government shows their responsibility by replant all the trees, we think that it was not quite a good way. They must realize earlier. It is because, even though they will replant all the trees back as normal, are they can also bring those Orang Utans back to their natural habitat? As before?

Other than that, it is also because of the “Hunting The Baby Of Orang Utans”. Although the title is sound more about the baby, but actually their mission is to hunt and kill the baby’s mother. They must kill the mother if they want to get the baby. The reasons why they really want the baby is because of he/she cuteness and want he/she to be as their pet. Now, let’s look. If the mothers of Orang Utans are dead, how the number of this species can be increase? There’s no way other than them. Next, many people thinks that the baby of Orang Utan is just same like the kittens, cubs or any baby of other kind of animals. But truthfully, they don’t. They can easily get diseases from human.

On the contrary, this species is becoming extinct because of the short-term thinking of human. A person that has the baby of Orang Utans do not know how to look after them anymore after they had been grown up. Almost cases regarding this issue, that person at last will throw the baby of Orang Utan to the forest, which are away from their life. For sure, the Orang Utan cannot continue their live anymore because they were not be trained to find food and protect themselves by their own. So, let the Orang Utan live in the forest alone. Because, that is their world and remain to be their world.

1. Reduce the usage of electricity.
If we reduce the usage of electricity, we can help the government to reduce and finally stop cutting the trees in the forest. It is because; we need to cut down trees in the jungle to build either small or large number of damns (hydroelectric damns). Orang Utans’ habitat will be decrease in number and it will be dangerous to them.

2. Reduce the usage of papers, and anything related to plants.
By doing this so, we can leave the forest alone without cutting more trees and trees in the future. Thus, it will not harm the natural habitat of Orang Utans. Orang Utans need shelter to keep on living in this world. They also build nest like other animals too. For your information, Orang Utans build their nest by breaking branches inward and by adding smaller leafy branches for cushioning. Think wisely. They really need plants.

3. Follows 3R – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The government introduces public about 3R program because they have their own reasons. We, as the public should support and show our responsibility towards it. Everybody knows that if we follow this ‘3R’ we can maintain our natural resources until the end of the day and our mother nature can be saved. Not only that, those flora and faunas such as the species of orang utans will also be saved.

4. Do fund programmed about orang utans, will help to lengthen their lives.
If you heard about fund raising regarding Orang Utans, just take part in it. With money that you’ve donated, either little or much at least, it will help to lengthen their lives.

5. Donate old toys, olds tyres and gunnysacks that are made up from ropes to any organization, which are related to conserving and preserving those orang utan.
Based on Zoo Negara’s management, other than money, we also can donate those things that we doesn’t use anymore such as our kids old toys, olds tyres of our cars and gunnysacks that are made up from ropes. All this things can be recycle back to be as the entertainment for those Orang Utans and it will keep them to be healthy.

The name orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan and orangutang) is derived from the Indonesian and Malay words orang meaning "person" and hutan meaning "forest", thus "person of the forest". In Sabah, they were called as kisau or kogiu or kahui. In Sarawak, they were called as Maias. Maias and mawas are also used in Malay, but it is unclear if those words refer only to orangutans, or to all apes in general.

The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid "monsters" named Pongo and Engeco. It is now believed that he was describing gorillas, but in the late 18th century it was believed that all great apes were orangutans; hence Lacépède's use of Pongo for the genus.

1.Orangutans are the only apes in the world that are from Asia.

2.Orangutans are diurnal which means they are active during the day.

3.Orangutans have opposable thumbs which means they can touch each of their fingers with their thumb.

4.A male orangutan’s cheek pads keep growing for most of their life.

5.Orangutans have 32 permanent teeth (the same amount as humans). They have sharp canine teeth with the male orangutan having longer canine teeth that they use for threat displays and fighting.

6.Mosquitoes bother orangutans just like they do humans and they will use branches like fly swatters to swish them away.

7.When it rains or the sun is hot an orangutan will hold a leafy branch or two over its head to protect itself from getting wet or overheated.

8.Most orangutans build a nest every night high up in a tree and sometimes even add a roof of leaves.

9.Orangutans can make approximately 13 to 15 different vocalizations.

10.The name “orangutan” translates into English as “man of the forest”. It comes from Malay and Bahasa Indonesian orang (man) and hutan (forest).

11.Legend says that orangutans can speak but choose not to because they fear they would be forced to work if were they ever caught talking.
At this time orangutans can still be found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.

12.An orangutan arms can have a reach of more than 8 feet! How tall are you? Probably not 8 feet or higher. So, an orangutan can have a reach of a length longer than you are tall!

13.In their true habitat, male orangutans live alone and females live alone or with their infants.

14.Female orangutans usually have one baby at a time and will only have one every 6 to 7years.

15.Orangutans eat tropical fruits, leaves, sprouts, bark and insects.
Baby orangutans cry when they’re hungry, whimper when they’re hurt and smile at their mothers.

The Sumatran species is critically endangered and the Bornean species of orangutans is endangered according to the IUCN Red List of mammals, and both are listed on Appendix I of CITES. The total number of Bornean orangutans is estimated to be less than 14 percent of what it was in the recent past (from around 10,000 years ago until the middle of the twentieth century) and this sharp decline has occurred mostly over the past few decades due to human activities and development. Species distribution is now highly patchy throughout Borneo: it is apparently absent or uncommon in the south-east of the island, as well as in the forests between the Rejang River in central Sarawak and the Padas River in western Sabah (including the Sultanate of Brunei). The largest remaining population is found in the forest around the Sabangau River, but this environment is at risk. A similar development have been observed for the Sumatran orangutans.

The most recent estimate for the Sumatran Orangutan is around 7,300 individuals in the wild while the Bornean Orangutan population is estimated at between 45,000 and 69,000. These estimates were obtained between 2000 and 2003. Since recent trends are steeply down in most places due to logging and burning, it is forecast that the current numbers are below these figures.

Orangutan habitat destruction due to logging, mining and forest fires, as well as fragmentation by roads, has been increasing rapidly in the last decade. A major factor in that period of time has been the conversion of vast areas of tropical forest to oil palm plantations in response to international demand (the palm oil is used for cooking, cosmetics, mechanics, and more recently as source of biodiesel). Some UN scientists believe that these plantations could lead to the extinction of the species by the year 2012.[30][31] Some of this activity is illegal, occurring in national parks that are officially off limits to loggers, miners and plantation development. There is also a major problem with hunting and illegal pet trade. In early 2004 about 100 individuals of Bornean origin were confiscated in Thailand and 50 of them were returned to Kalimantan in 2006. Several hundred Bornean orangutan orphans who were confiscated by local authorities have been entrusted to different orphanages in both Malaysia and Indonesia. They are in the process of being rehabilitated into the wild.

Major conservation centres in Indonesia include those at Tanjung Puting National Park and Sebangau National Park in Central Kalimantan, Kutai in East Kalimantan, Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan, and Bukit Lawang in the Gunung Leuser National Park on the border of Aceh and North Sumatra. In Malaysia, conservation areas include Semenggoh Wildlife Centre in Sarawak and Matang Wildlife Centre also in Sarawak, and the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary near Sandakan in Sabah.

The orangutans are two species of great apes. Known for their intelligence, they live in trees and are the largest living arboreal animal. They have longer arms than other great apes, and their hair is typically reddish-brown, instead of the brown or black hair typical of other great apes. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, they are currently found only in rainforests on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, though fossils have been found in Java, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Vietnam and China.



Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
Order: Primates
Family: Pongidae
Genus: Pongo
Species:
• abelii (Sumatran)
• pygmaeus (Bornean)
Length: males—about 40 inches (102 centimeters) from top of head to rump; females—about 30 inches (76 centimeters)
Weight: males—110 to 198 pounds (50 to 90 kilograms); females—66 to 110 pounds (30 to 50 kilograms)
Life span: up to 59 years in zoos
Gestation: about 8.5 months
Number of young at birth: usually 1, sometimes 2
Size at birth: 3.3 to 4.5 pounds (1.5 to 2 kilograms)

It’s very imperative for us to conserve and preserve all orang utans in this world. Do you know why? It’s because orang utans are one of the endangered species and are becoming extinct day by day. Orang utans are also same like other variety of animal. They have their right to live happily and peacefully in this world. They are just alike as us, human. Yes, they were not created by God 100 percent like us, but almost exactly the same as a human. You want to see the proof? Scientists from the whole world had found that orang utan has a good IQ. Almost 98 percent of human DNA is inside their body. They can live like human, eat like human, teasing with themselves like human and even can survive at a deep jungle better than a human being can did.
Next, orang utans are also type of animal that was created by God to live mutually with us in this whole entire world. Ever you think why is that so? Try thinking deeply. We’ve found that by having orang utans in this world may stabilize our ecosystem. Let me show you, people need oxygen to respire and oxygen also needed during our respiration process. Only plants can supply us this gas. Plants in the forest need urea to maintain live. Now, this is where orang utans play theirs role. They provide nature urea for all the plants by their defecation process.
Apart from that, the lives of orang utans can give gold chances to our future generation to feel the humanity as a human. This conservation effort may be one of the ways to let kids nowadays become more responsibility. By realising that orang utan is an animal that must be concerned of, they would think twice to do something against or with it. It is because they already know what the dos and don’ts to an animal called orang utan. By the end, it will leave something good towards all the kids, themselves.