Orangutans are being killed by bullets and lost of habitat due to palm oil plantations expanding into their forest homes. A male orangutan named Aan was found with 104 bullets throughout his body, and doctors believe the infections from his wounds caused his death. Orangutans are considered "umbrella species" and play an important role in seed dispersal, so their loss could negatively impact hundreds of other plant and animal species in the rainforest ecosystem. With orangutans and their forests disappearing, it threatens not only biodiversity but also human welfare.

1. Orang Utan vs Palm Oil
Bernadia Dwiyani 1206254782
Dana Andriyana

2. General Information

6. The Problem with Palm Oil
• poor air quality from burning forests and
peatlands

9. Issue
Orangutan found with 104 bullets lodged in body
The Jakarta Post, Central Kalimantan | Archipelago | Wed, October 24 2012, 10:22
PM
A male orangutan named Aan was found, dying, with 104 bullets lodged all over his
body in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan.
When scanning the ape, doctors from the Orangutan Foundation found 37 bullets in
his head and 67 others in his body, including in his heart and lungs. The doctors
predicted that Aan was also suffering from infections derived from the wounds,
tempo.co reported on Wednesday.
Zulfiqri, a doctor treating Aan, said that the infections may have caused his death.
The bullets caused vision and hearing impairments. “His left eye is blind already,” he
said.
A rescue team from the foundation and the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources
Conservation Agency found Aan severely wounded on Oct. 10 in a palm oil
plantation.
The foundation said that it would remove the bullets soon. Should the ape survive
the operation, he will be released to Sungai Lamandu nature conservatory in Central
Kalimantan. (cor)

11. Issue
In November 2011, for instance, two Indonesian plantation
workers in Borneo were arrested after killing "at least 20
endangered orangutans and proboscis monkeys as a means of
pest control for landowners looking to protect their crops," the
Associated Press reports.
The men said they had "chased down the primates with dogs,"
before shooting, stabbing or hacking them to death with
machetes. They allegedly told authorities that "the owners of
several palm oil plantations on Borneo island [had] offered $100
for every orangutan killed and $20 for every long-nosed
proboscis monkey."
According to Orangutan.org, both species of orangutans left in
the wild are in severe decline and are threatened with extinction.

14. The Impact to our world
Orang Utan is a basic Orang Utan primarly eat fruit,
of species which and they play an important role
called umbrella to seed disperser
species and sharing
96.4% of our DNA
The loss of
orangutan If orang utan extinct,
The primary
Orangutan protect reflects the there will be no
forest is the
people from loss of regeneration to our
basis of human
diseases hundreds of forest. The situation
welfare and the
species of more worst with
key to a healthy
plants and illegal logging
planet is
animals in the
biodiversity
rain forest
ecosystem

15. How to stop it!

16. • Government

17. • Citizen

18. Thanks to
• WWF
• JAKARTA POST
• FRIENDS OF SUMATRA (FACEBOOK)
• HUFE POST GREEN
• SUMATRAN ORANGUTAN SOCIETY