Is it a primate issue?
2006-09-02 09:34:44 · 6 answers · asked by Manny 5 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The people on here are right, but they are also forgetting the fact that orangutans have very long breeding cycles. From memory, orangutans don't leave their mother until they are about eight years old! Put that together with the hunting for fur over a couple of hundreds of years, habitat destuction, and you have a very endangered species.
It's really sad :(
2006-09-02 19:36:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a HUMAN issue...we are destroying their habitat!! They have no where left to live! Most species that are on the brink of extinction are so due to habitat loss.
2006-09-02 18:51:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same reason as most other species: human encroachment into and destruction of their habitats.
2006-09-02 10:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by Danger, Will Robinson! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lummber industries.
2006-09-02 14:20:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because greedy ppl keep making shopping centers & houses on their land.
2006-09-02 09:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by lady sixx 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because people keep cutting down the forests they live in.
http://www.orangutan.org/facts/danger.php
2006-09-02 09:39:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋