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The mother orangutan is her offspring's first real playmate. She finds snails and round fruit to amuse him and encourages him to frisk and leap about. She teaches him to make his way slowly down the damp tree trunks, to catch lizards, to steal eggs from nests, to drive insects from their nests, and to recognize the places where necessary

The new-born orangutan weighs a kilo gram, or slightly more, and from the day he is born he is able to hold on by himself, to the shaggy hair of his mother's chest. This contact provides warmth and a sense of protection. During the four years of his long infancy, the young orangutan behaves almost like a human baby: when frightened, he cries; when annoyed, he is bad humored; and when happy, he kisses his mother's face for a full half-hour.

Early in life he eats plants which his mother chews up for him and transfers from her mouth to his. When he is one year old, he can feed by himself on fruit, buds and tender leaves. In three years' time he runs rapidly on all fours and, if necessary, stands up on his hind legs for a few minutes. Though he is able to find his way in the dense Indonesian jungle, now and then he gets lost; but if his mother hears his cries for help, she will rescue him.

The animals of Asia that live in the tropical Asian forests and specially the orangutan s in Borneo and orangutan s found in Sumatra and all the wildlife of the world have always been a beauty of any natural habitat. Monkeys and chimpanzees in the African rain forest have seen their good days and their bad days as well. The Congo forest with its amazing silver back gorillas is facing an extinction of the different money species, chimpanzee, gorillas and other wild rare exotic animal species despite the fact the fact that beautiful African animals safaris in Kenya South Africa and many of the Savannah habitat in African is known for its great silver back gorillas, the African Big cats and the African big five animals or Kenya big 5.
As far as the Asian wild animals and the ape family is concerned, the orangutan is the most beautiful great ape that which inhabits the deep dangerous forests of the Asian continent where different wildlife species are found in different animal habitat with animals found in different habitats such as the hot and cold deserts of Asia, the cold regions and the ice caped mountains of the Himalayas as well.
Why are orangutan endangered and how are the orangutans endangered? Are these orangutans facing extinction or there are no facts about orangutans which can help explain the plight of the orangutans in the different orangutan's habitats in many parts of the world? If there is information about these beautiful orangutans which person keep as pets and use some of the orangutan's body parts such as the orangutans skill, is there any thing substantial which can be done to save these orangutans? These are just some of the frequently asked questions about orangutans whether they are in the wild or these orangutans are in captivity.
Many animals are becoming extinct in Asia and as far as the different causes for such a degradation or reduction in the number of animal species is concerned, illegal animal poaching and trade in animal body parts is just one of the main causes why some of these orangutans are becoming endangered as well as many of the wild animal species in Asia. If Africa has faced and is still facing these viscous cycles of land degradation and loss of habitat loss for most of its wild life and animals in the wild as a whole, the Borneo orangutans and the Sumatra orangutans are having the same problem as far as the plight of the orangutans is concerned.
Whether it's the civil wars in these regions or just the conflict between man and animals is just one of the greatest animal fact for a cause of animals being endangered and a reason for animals to be come extinct. The orangutans in the wild within the great forest of Borneo and Sumatra have little breeding grounds and feeding grounds in their habitat which is mostly composed of the tropical Asian forest habitat.
In the Congo forest, the endless civil wars forced people to find refuge in these forests of Africa and the chain in change of habitat for many of the wild animals were forced to move deeper in the forest. While many of the people who took refuge in such forests found animals which they could hunt easily and store, day in and day out these tropical rain forests were been reduced and illegally poached in large numbers as there was no organ of the different governing bodies to keep a check on the plight of the animals while the plight of humans themselves already was at stake. In this beautiful part of Asia and with its great forests, the orangutan habitat forest is stretching back at a very alarming rate. habitat.
The need for food crops, timber and road construction and the general habitat of man has diminished most of the orangutans' natural habitat. As a matter of fact, people who venture into the wild have found ways of catching these orangutans and removing them from their natural habitat. Keeping orangutans as pets has been one of the most promising business for many farmers and other few people who have vested interest in animals as they find loopholes in the existing animal protection systems in these great forests which need to be manned but with few and little resources at their disposal.

Orangutan attacks conflicts with farmers If orangutans eat the farmer's crops, they are captured or killed. What is the main reason for all this? It's the humans who are to blame as they are the ones who in the first place became adventurous and ventured into the enchanted territories of the orangutans. Had people not opted for such easy to get land grabbing ideas with no systems of checks and balances, the orangutan and other primates and apes would not have been endangered and some of the world animals such as the Javan rhino would not have become extinct as well.What is the most amazing fact about orangutans?

Is it because people like orangutans because the hair of an orangutan is reddish brown or is it because some of the most amazing interesting news about orangutans such as this: Denver Zoo veterinarians called on local doctors to help save Sally the orangutan, who had an infected tumor in her uterus. "It just warmed your heart. I felt honored and privileged. To look back at your life one day and say, 'I was able to help this endangered species."

"If doctors who have no knowledge of operating on an orangutan find ways and means of saving the lives of these orangutans which are endangered animals already why not the common man? What do people really know about the population of orangutans? Is it stagnant or has it gone down. Are the numbers of orangutan sightings increasing or decreasing with conflicts with man? As far as the general population of orangutans in the wild is concerned, the population if orangutans is about 30,000 orangutans. If that is a big population for the orangutan or ape species, where is there a hue and cry? Is it because the people who adopt take these baby orangutans and sell them as pets deprive the orangutan the basic life necessities to live in the wild and die in the wild like any other orangutan which have roamed the beautiful Asian habitat.

With little facts about the orangutan's population being sketchy just like any other animal population in the wild in Africa Europe Australia and within the Amazon forest the orangutans are endangered and with the change in environment and weather conditions such as floods earth quakes and tsunamis, the orangutans just like any other wild animal in this earth will keep on facing and experiencing these unforeseen changes and keep on adopting with it and at the same time as may more orangutan pets keep on flooding the different orangutan homes and zoos of the world might as well increase on the awareness of the orangutans as well.
Doctors Save Orangutan
Doctors at the University of Colorado didn't expect to have an orangutan on their operating table. The 44-year-old primate from the Denver Zoo was suffering from anemia and had a large infected tumor in her uterus. So zoo vets called on the local docs for help. The Denver Post has the details: REPORTER: "Six hours of surgery and a team of five doctors assisted by zoo veterinarians." VET: "It was the job of the surgeons to go through and dissect out and separate the different organs" REPORTER: "No road map to help them." DOCTOR: "Even Google couldn't pull up anything about orangutan anatomy." Specialists in gynecology and oncology in charge of the surgery knew it wouldn't be easy to operate on their furry patient.
They told KUSA the biggest challenge they faced was the potential loss of blood. "There's not a blood bank for the orangutan, so that would be a case where in order to get blood, they would have had to find her closest relative in another zoo" The six-hour surgery turned out to be a success and, six weeks later, the doctors returned to find a back-to-normal Sally. One doctor told the Post she'll never forget this operation. " It just warmed your heart. I felt honored and privileged. To look back at your life one day and say, 'I was able to help this endangered species.' In the wild the orangutan uses its natural instinct to nature its young ones and provide all the protection until the young or baby orangutans re able to fend for themselves and also to socialize freely but how do you expect a human being to adopt an orangutan without even the knowledge of keeping a cat or even a small dog?

With great wild animals such as the orangutan comes great responsibility as well. Orangutans are animals which are used to trees. If you think the African leopard is a babe in the African Savannah woods, the orangutans are babes in the Sumatran and Bornean orangutan's habitat. These beautiful apes despite the fact that they are found in different regions, they are almost related to each other and have managed to adapt to their living environment as well.
Orangutan physical characteristics
Just like the mountain gorilla and the silverback the Borneo orangutans have somehow a big body as well. The typical shape and size of the orangutan is a bit bulky and large. As far as the neck is concerned, the orangutan's neck is strong and thick due to the long arms and energy needed to support the orangutan while moving and jumping from tree to tree.
While most of the day the orangutan spends on the trees the survival of the orangutan depends mostly on its ability to hang on trees and hence the orangutan unlike any other apes, the orangutan has the strongest arms in the world and with no straight legs like humans but having very powerful bowed legs which also act like hands for grasping and dangling among the branches of trees and even to be able to hung upside down. If you think chimpanzees are amazing animals, wait until you see an orangutan hanging upside down and spinning around. It's just a thing which people who have ventured into the wild to see these beautiful orangutans in their habitat can really explain how amazing orangutans are.
Most orangutans are four to five feet long. To some extent, some orangutans can reach a length of about six feet. The adult male orangutan's can weigh about 100 and 200 pounds and adult female orangutans can weigh about 65 and 100 pounds. In general orangutans have some of the most amazing arms which can reach five feet long.
What are the advantages of an animal to have a tail? Is it to chase away flies or is it used to mark the territory or area where it is standing? Well for the elephant, the tail is mostly used to chase away flies and mostly to locate the baby elephant which might be following behind and as a way of holding to. Why then don't orangutans have tails? Is it because their long hands are just perfect to chase flies and to scratch anybody part which might be itchy? Well the orangutan just like the silver back gorilla does not have a tail as well.
Which animal is mostly related to the orangutan? As far as the face of the orangutan is concerned, the orangutan has a face which is almost similar to a baboon and a gorilla. Despite the fact that the orangutan's body is mostly covered with long reddish-brown hair and grey-black skin baboons and gorillas have a black skin or black hair. Just like the gorilla, the orangutan has a large head with somehow a big mouth which has always been a musing when some of the pet chimpanzees which have been trained are appear in national television doing different types of tricks and in many circuses all over the world. The orangutans in many zoos as well give a clear picture as to how the beautiful animals can also be intelligent.
If people have hair on their faces while some people have no hair, orangutans also are apes which don't have hair on their faces but as far as orangutan males are concerned, these kings of the Bornean forest can develop some hair on their upper lip which gives them the perfect animal moustache.
Orangutan's diet
The beautiful forests of Asia have all the food that the orangutan's diet is made of. Wild fruits, leaves berries nuts, barks of trees, roots insects eggs small animals birds all make up as part of the orangutan's diet and food available in the wild. Since orangutans are omnivorous their natural feeding and breeding grounds largely depends of the amount of food available and the quantity of food which can help sustain a family of orangutans as far as their range is concerned. So whether it's a combination of different pants which might make the daily food for the orangutan or just flesh or meat not forgetting fish as well might just supplement the diet of the orangutan as well.

Being in the forest and with the ever changing environmental conditions, these beautiful animals are always faced with competition with human beings who enter into their habitat and in the event cut down some of the most important feeding grounds of the orangutans and with the little varieties of trees to eat or leaves to much on which could be around two hundred types, animal competition as far as food scarcity and food shortages renders many of the orangutan feeding mothers to abandon their baby orangutans as there is no milk to feed them on.
Whether it's a natural animal instinct where you find animals like the cheetahs abandoning their cubs or a hippopotamus neglecting its cup just after birth is something which people don't know about animals and their animal instincts as well. These are some of the incidences which lure people to venture in the forest to look for abandoned orangutans and sell them in the market and hence the boon in orangutan babies as pets in the local markets and international markets as well.
The dangers that Orangutans face
If you know your favorite pizza joint or any or that crispy chicken with some chips to go with in your neighborhood or downtown, orangutans are also very good at knowing from over 200 plants species and fruits that grow in their habitat and to know exactly when the fruits will be ready or when they are ripening. Whether they are annual fruits or fruits which take two to three years to ripen, these beautiful intelligent apes of Asia will just march to these trees and start their fruit eating festival only to be distracted by other powerful orangutan males which might venture into the same habitat looking for the same fruits and wanting to share the rest of the pie in the trees as well.
Like any other social animals in the forest of Asia, the orangutan males are also territorial animals as well. Breaching the orangutans' habitat always creates dangerous orangutan conflicts and fights since orangutans are very territorial animals. The next time you hear different calls and yelling among the forest, just know it's the 'person of the forest' or 'man of the forest'. The word orangutan comes from the Malay language and means 'person of the forest' - from the words 'orang' meaning people and 'hutan' meaning forest. But who would dare venture into the orangutan's habitat in the wild?

There are people who have discovered the wealth found in these forests which is part of the natural habitat of Asia. Logging and the need to land for farming has created and is still creating a lot of destruction in the orangutan's ecosystem. With every inch of the forest being stepped on, the orangutan food and habitat is displaced three folds. If palm oil is replacing many of the natural forests, in the end, you will still have the need to plant more palm trees and the end of all the animals found in these forests of Asia. These palm oil plantations are no doubt increasing the living standards of the local people but as far as logging is concerned, the workers taking part with all these man made activities do play a very big role in the degradation of the orangutan species in general.
The more the logging activity penetrates deep into the forests the easier for illegal animal or orangutan poaching becomes easy as more areas of the forests become easily accessible by day and night where there is no protection or care given to these orangutans in the wild. While the same principles applies whether its in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya or the famous Kruger national parks where poachers shoot these beautiful animals with bows and arrows or even poison the feeding mothers so that they can take the young animals when the mothers are dead.
In the heart of the orangutan's forests, poachers always kill the mother orangutans, and capture their babies. Why would someone want to adopt a baby orangutan as a pet if there are so many young boys and girls who need all the motherly love tender and care? Is the animal love really surpassing the natural mother and baby love? Why in the world are we living in the world like this? Is it the fame of having a pet orangutan or is it just a way of putting more and more videos of orangutan on the internet ever day just to get over one million orangutan vies in a day. Well I am sure there has to be something which needs to be done about it for all those people who are having orangutans as pets or baby orangutans as pets as well.
These cute little apes need all the orangutan family to take care of it. Where in the world did people know how to nature an orangutan in the first place? Do we have researchers who have slept in the forest day in day our climbing trees and observing what the orangutans are doing and well thinking day in and day out? If these are questions that one can clearly say yes. I have all the facts about orangutans and keep in one is a piece of cake, just remember when the orangutan catches a cold or falls down with a minor accident, you just need to be ready to donate blood for any operation. Guess what I wonder where you are going to get a match for the orangutan.
If such activities can be put to a proper check, this will not only deter people from all walks of life to stop adopting illegal exotic animals for the sake of keeping then as pets while there are millions of other animals in animal sanctuaries which need a home but end up being euthanized due to lack of people to adopt them, facilities to house them and the overall cost of raising these pets or animals as well.
Do you think orangutans can live properly in the wild? How big a cage can you build for an orangutan? Why would you want to coop a huge animal which wants to spend all its life in the trees day in day out come rain come sun shine? Would you like to be a slave in this modern age where every animal is born free with all animal rights and human rights there to protect? Lets all love all animals in order to save all.

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The mother orangutan is her off­spring's first real playmate. She finds snails and round fruit to amuse him and encourages him to frisk and leap about.

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Wangari Maathai & The Green Belt Movement

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The African Rainforest Conservancy conserves and restores African rainforests by empowering local men, women, and children through training, community development, research and education to preserve their natural heritage.

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"Over 8,000 plant species have been discovered in the rainforest of Africa."

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"Every second an area of rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed."

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It is a threatened ecosystem

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3 quarters of African rainforest are in central Africa

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African rainforests cover over 2.2 million square miles

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The vegetation from the rain forest can be made into useful items and sold.  Bark can be used for cloth or rope and leaves for dinner plates or roofs.

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Scientists have identified just 10 percent of the plants living in the Congo rainforests.

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This region has about 8,000 plant species.

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The first oil palm plantations were developed in Ghana in 1850.

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The oil palm accounts for 14% of the world's plant oils.

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Some African people who live in the rainforest use Driver ants jaws to close wounds.

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A four-mile patch of rainforest could contain up to 400 species of birds, 150 species of butterflies and 60 species of amphibians!

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African Forest Elephants weigh 7,000-9,000 lbs and are less than their cousins from the African Savannah.

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A native of the Congo rainforests, the okapi is kin to giraffes, but looks more like a donkey. Its neck and legs are far shorter than giraffes', but like its taller kin, it is a shy vegetarian, feeding on fruit and leaves.

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The Congo rain forest is famous for its gorillas, chimpanzees, and elephants and pygmies.

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Mahogany is one of the most popular woods sold from the African rain forest. While it's texture is not as refined as American Mahogany, it is still very valuable and is used for making furniture.

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A highly profitable bushmeat trade kills about 2,000 chimps and 3,000 gorillas each year.

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The temperatures in the rain forest are usually a humid 80 degrees with lows around 73 degrees

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Most of the African rain forests are located in the Congo River Basin.

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The west and central African rain forests receive about 63 to 79 inches of rain each year

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Wood encroachment is when you go into a another person's area and invade it. people are stealing wood from the rainforest, that is not theirs. This undermines the person who is making money off logging rainforest trees. This has a negative outcome on the environment.

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Civil wars have been common. One example was South and North Sudan fighting each other. Eventually after 2 civil wars for more than 20 years, North Sudan became independent. Civil wars destroy the environment and people. Usually, it takes a couple years to fix the changes. Many African leaders do not care about the environment. The money he government has is probably not a lot, so the environment does not get rebuilt.

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Slash and Burn farming has been a method African people have used to clear the Rainforest. First, this is not good because it can cause fires. Also, the rainforest is important for animals to live in. people are not caring about which they will regret when they have no rainforest.

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The African people have cleared a lot of the rainforest to have new industries and grow their crops. Also the countries that colonized Africa wanted to have their industry get more popular. As a result, the Europeans cleared some of their land to try to industrialize African countries. Soon there will probably be not that much of a rainforest left because of many problems.

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Overhunting has made some of the African animals endangered and eventually it will be a regret. First, there will not be as many animals to eat. This will add to the starvation.

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Climate change in Africa has no dry season. This is why in Africa it is usually so hot.

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As we revealed last week, we've been doing a lot of work recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), researching the threats that currently face the vast rainforest that stretch across the Congo basin.

It's a forest we can ill-afford to lose: 40 million people depend on the forest in one way or another. It is also critical for the survival of our closest animal relatives, including gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos, and like all large intact forests, it's crucially important for regulating the local and global climate.

Today, we're releasing a new report, Carving Up the Congo, which exposes how international logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmental havoc. It also reveals how the World Bank, by far the largest donor to the DRC, is failing to stop this destruction whilst the rainforest is being sold off under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty in one of the poorest countries on Earth.

The report is long and complex but to help those of you who don't have time to plough through it, we've summarised our findings in the animation below:

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Unfulfilled promises

In short, our report shows how, in spite of a moratorium on new logging that has been in place since 2002, over 15 million hectares of rainforest have been granted to the logging industry - that's an area five times the size of Belgium, and much of this is in areas that are vital for protecting biodiversity.

Taxes paid by the companies for the rights to log the forest should be going to local forest communities to provide essential services that those of us in developed nations take for granted like education and healthcare. But even the World Bank admits that over the last three years, not a single penny paid by the logging companies has reached local communities. This leaves these people not only without the forest that provided their food, shelter and medicine, but without the benefits they had been promised.

What is the World Bank?
The World Bank is group of five international organisations responsible for providing finance and advice to countries for the purposes of economic development and alleviating poverty.
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In exchange for timber worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, logging companies are also giving communities gifts such as bags of salt and crates of beer worth less than $100, and make promises to build schools and hospitals. These promises rarely fulfilled and there are reports that intimidation tactics are used against people who try to protest. We have copies of some of these contracts along with stories of how people have been pushed into to sign them, even if they can't read the French they are written in.

Not only that, but corruption is endemic and the local authorities are inadequately trained or equipped to enforce the law. Poorly paid officials sometimes have only a bicycle to help them patrol vast areas of rainforest, making it impossible to control the industry.

Ministerial influence

It sounds like bad news for the Congolese, but there is still time to prevent the destruction of the rainforest and see that alternative solutions are developed which will really help to lift the country out of poverty.

The World Bank's spring meeting is this weekend and the DRC is on the agenda. Hilary Benn, Secretary of State at the Department for International Development and the UK's Governor of the Bank, will be attending so we want him to use his influence to ensure there is a real future for the rainforest and ensure proper safeguards are put in place to protect it. Our campaigners are in conversation with him this morning and we'll be keeping a close eye on how things progress at the spring meeting.

It's not too late to prevent the destruction of this incredible rainforest, and by putting pressure on Benn and the other governors of the Bank, that's exactly what we intend to do.

Take action

Find out what you can do to help protect the Congo rainforest.

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What a carve up! The con in the Congo logging industry

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As we revealed last week, we've been doing a lot of work recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), researching the threats that currently face the vast rainforest that stretch across the Congo basin. It's a forest we can ill-afford to lose: 40 million people depend on the forest in one way or another.

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Scarce food and water have been a challenge. Many African jobs do not pay that much money, barely enough to survive. Africa is a poor continent with a growing population. This makes more people starve to death.

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Less economic funding has weakened the environment even more. African countries are worrying a lot about resources and crops.

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The growing population has made things worse. First, the African government can't make all the people have enough money to live. Second, in the rainforest there are many economic problems, which results in less space for the people.

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Predators at the top of the food chain are declining due to defaunatation. One of the reasons it is caused is by poaching which many people in Africa do.

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Preventing Bushmeat Poaching in Africa's Forests on GlobalGiving

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This project supports reserve rangers protecting wildlife such as elephants, chimpanzees and okapi in the Ituri Forest of the DR Congo which are being illegally hunted for the ivory and bushmeat trade

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The Congo Basin is home to the second largest tropical rainforest on earth. Although the region has been logged for decades, the six Congo Basin countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon) have low deforestation rates overall. They are referred to as "High Forest, Low Deforestation," or HFLD, countries. Countries like Indonesia that have lost significant amounts of forest are known as HFHD or "High Forest, High Deforestation."

As Colin May-Tobin, a policy analyst at the Tropical Forest Initiative explains, the HFLD countries of the Congo Basin are at risk of becoming HFHD countries. This is because Congo Basin countries, for the most part, have, "maintained their high forest cover out a desire for conservation, but because low deforestation rates have more to do with lack of economic and infrastructure development."

So as the demand for palm oil grows and land becomes scarcer and more expensive in Southeast Asia, the forces of globalization will bring increased palm oil development to Africa. And palm oil plantations will bring roads and other infrastructure that will result in more deforestation. The cost of progress?

May-Tobin suggests that there may be an alternative that could bring development without (or with less) destruction: "African countries also have the potential to be a major player in the deforestation-free palm oil market. Since many African countries produce little palm oil now, they aren't hindered with a legacy of deforestation and have the ability to ramp up their production without damaging ecosystems. This would allow producers to declare that all palm oil from a given country is deforestation-free. This makes it much easier for consumers and companies to make informed decisions of what palm oil to buy."

This is easier said than done as palm oil is a global commodity with myriad uses and separating "deforestation free" palm oil from the rest will be a challenge. But the good news is that organizations like the Rainforest Foundation and Greenpeace are drawing attention to palm oil development in the Congo Basin now, before major damage is done. Why not imagine being able to purchase palm oil with country-of-origin labeling that would guarantee zero deforestation?

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Palm oil and the high forest, low deforestation equation

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The Congo Basin is home to the second largest tropical rainforest on earth. Although the region has been logged for decades, the six Congo Basin countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon) have low deforestation rates overall. They are referred to as "High Forest, Low Deforestation," or HFLD, countries.

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Grayson- Picture of Animals in Rainforest

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Grayson- Picture of Animals in Rainforest

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Rita Kennedy

Deforestation in the Central African rainforest threatens the mountain gorilla. (Photo: Anup Shah/Digital Vision/Getty Images )

Central Africa's rainforests are second only to those of the Amazon basin in terms of size. The 780,000 square miles of rainforest in the Congo river basin cross international borders and harbor thousands of different species of plants and animals.

Location

The vast majority of central Africa's rainforest is found in the basin of the Congo river in western Africa. Greenpeace calculates that around two thirds of this is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.), but it also takes in parts of Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo.

Plants

The rainforest supports an estimated 8,000 plant species but among the best-known are the oil palm and the mahogany tree. Oil palms are native to the area, but today account for approximately 14 percent of the world's plant-based oils. Mahogany, meanwhile, is used for construction, furniture, flooring and boatbuilding. The okoume tree is not a household name outside the region but is the most harvested species in both Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, according to the Observatoire des Forets d'Afrique Centrale.

Wildlife

Rainforests are the most biodiverse of the Earth's biomes, and the rainforests of Africa are home to thousands of different species, including 1,000 species of birds and 400 different types of mammals. The gorilla is probably the most well-known resident, but poaching and deforestation have reduced their numbers within D.R.C. to an estimated 480 individuals in 2010. The black colobus monkey ranks in the top 10 most endangered monkeys in Africa. It takes its name from a word meaning "mutilated one," a reference to the fact that the monkeys have no thumb. One much smaller but still formidable rainforest resident is the driver ant; living in colonies of up to 22 million, the ants search the forest floor for prey at speeds of up to 65 feet an hour.

Threats

More than 60 percent of Congo's population relies on the forest in some way, according to Greenpeace, but the forest's survival is under serious threat. The World Bank has gotten involved to encourage government efforts to control the exploitation of the forest, prevent illegal logging and place at least 15 percent of the forested area of D.R.C. under legal protection, and all seven affected countries signed an agreement in 2005 to protect the remaining rainforest. However, Greenpeace says that not enough is being done, particularly to curb illegal logging by international companies and continues to campaign for more action.

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Observatoire des Forets d'Afrique Centrale

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Description of the Rainforest in Central Africa

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Rita Kennedy Deforestation in the Central African rainforest threatens the mountain gorilla. (Photo: Anup Shah/Digital Vision/Getty Images ) Central Africa's rainforests are second only to those of the Amazon basin in terms of size. The 780,000 square miles of rainforest in the Congo river basin cross international borders and harbor thousands of different species of plants and animals.

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Africa's rainforests are the second largest rainforests in the world.

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About 20% of Africa is covered with rainforests.

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jengi is the spirit is invoked with music before they hunt and celebrations

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Tree is used to make chocolate

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their are 250000 rain forest inhabinits

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The baka are most cultrally instinct

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Baka people are short less than five feet tall

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Baka territory is in cameroon

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#1 The Congo river is like a highway in the African Rainforest.

#2 African Rainforest have half of the country's animal species.

#3 African Rainforest are falling silent (dying).

#4 Deforestation, road construction, and slash and burn farming have wiped out 90% of  West African Rainforest.

#5 Today, the Rainforest government is doing their best to protect their rainforest from harm.

#6 The west and central African Rainforest get 63-79 inches of rain each year.

#7 Rainforest temperatures are usually humid with highs of 80 and the lows of 73 degrees fahrenheit.

#8 These seas are a botest dream with super dense vegetation.

#9 Rainforest are in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Cote D'ivoire.

#10 The people who live in the African rainforest live in huts and go to camps with their whole village.

#11 Cameroon has a population density of 800 people.

#12 Chimpanzee, Cross River and Mountain Gorillas, African Elephants, Forest elephants, and Buffaloes are all animals in the African Rainforest.

#13 Bananas, Orchid, Coffee Beans, Brazil Nut Tree, Rubber Trees, Caco Poinsettia, Heliconia are all food plants in the African Rainforest.

#14 The congo river is a huge resource and really important for everyday life in the African Rainforest.

#15 ¾ of Africans live in Central Africa.

#16 The central African Rainforest is covered in large parts of Cameroon.

#17 Tropical Rainforest differ from being wet, and dry while the biome is covered in vegetation.

#18 African Rainforest are responsible for 28% of the world's oxygen.

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Deforestation has wiped out 90% of the rainforest.

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"Home to half of the continent's animal species, Africa's vast rainforests are falling silent."

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Poachers are destroying the environment by killing animals and selling them for money.

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The government is torn about helping the environment and not helping the environment.

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" In 1999, the six countries of the Congo Basin -- Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea -- pledged to harmonize forestry laws."