Tag: Borneo

A Pregnant and Hungry Orangutan Has Been Spotted Holding On To The Last Tree Left While Bulldozers Ravage Her Home — True Activist – October 3, 2019

(True Activist)  With the rainforests of the world being destroyed and burnt down at a rapid rate by the human society in order to profit from the area of the once lush jungle and home to wild animals, this becomes another problem for those living there.

Animals that seek refuge in jungles and forests have suddenly been displaced and oftentimes have nowhere else to go.
The orangutan population has further diminished because of land urbanization that they are on the brink of extinction, all thanks to human activity. →

Read more via A Pregnant and Hungry Orangutan Has Been Spotted Holding On To The Last Tree Left While Bulldozers Ravage Her Home — True Activist

Sobering Footage Shows Orangutan Fighting Off Excavator To Protect His Home — Collective Evolution – September 17, 2019

(Collective-Evolution)  By now many of us know about the destructive nature of palm oil harvesting. As each year goes by about 6,000 orangutans are killed as a direct result of deforestation for palm oil. According to The Orangutan Project, every hour 300 football fields of precious remaining forest is ploughed to the ground across South East Asia to make way for palm oil plantations. →

Read more & video clip:”Sadness As An Orangutan Tries To Fight The Bulldozer Destroying Its Habitat” (2:05)  — Collective Evolution

World Wildlife Fund Warns Australia That Deforestation Would Lead To The Extinction of Koalas By 2050 — True Activist – June 20, 2019

by: True Activist Posted on June 20, 2019

 

Australia’s massive deforestation in the east coast is a threat to the habitation of koalas and other native species living there.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) headed by the president Pavan Sukhdev has given a warning to Australian leaders about the danger in extinction of koalas by 2050.

Read more via World Wildlife Fund Warns Australia That Deforestation Would Lead To The Extinction of Koalas By 2050 — True Activist

Orangutan defends forest home from giant excavator ripping down trees — NaturalNews – June 11, 2018

(Natural News) As the problem of deforestation continues to spread around the globe, one brave orangutan has decided that he’s had enough. Loggers were tearing down trees left and right in the Ketapang Regency on the island of Borneo, when the orangutan began defending its home. Daring to climb across a fallen tree, the fearless creature…..Read more & video

via Orangutan defends forest home from giant excavator ripping down trees — NaturalNews.com