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From this project, I have learnt that conserving biodiversity means to protect and maintain a nature reserve of all forms of life such as plants, animals and fungi from going extinct.

I use to think that orangutans can be found easily in any forest in Asia. It is only after this research then I know that are only found in South Asia and they are endangered animals as their species have decreased from hundreds of thousands to less than 50 000 to 60 000 and now, three-quarter of them could be found in Borneo.

Why are orangutans endangered? It is due to destructive human activities such as intense permitted logging, illegal logging, settlements, road constructions, conversation to palm oil plantation and farmlands. Logging cuts down the habitats of the orang-utans, settlements and conversion of forests to palm oil plantation and farmlands clears the forest for our needs. Road constructions disturbs the habitat, there is a risk whereby animals might run onto the roads then being run down by oblivious drivers, especially truck drivers. Clearing the forest for palm oil plantation includes burning as ashes left behind are fertilisers to the palm trees in which causes global warming and pollution to the air quality. More palm trees must be planted as there is a world growing demand for products which major ingredient is oil, such as soap and lipstick.

We can help conserve orangutans by not buying or selling endangered animals or animal part, not buying products made of endangered animals(e.g. ivory and rhinoceros horn), not buying food made of endangered animals, report to authorities if you know of anyone who endangered animal parts and save paper or use recycled paper.

We can also help save their habitats by building more high-rise apartments than using more land to build low-rise apartments, producing more recycled paper, producing lesser products made of oil, promoting conservation campaigns and educating people.

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My suggestions are to build more high-rise apartments than using more land to build low-rise apartments, produce more recycled paper, produce lesser products made of oil, promote conservation campaigns and educate people.

Building more high-rise apartments t saves land. This will decrease the clearing of forests for settlements.
By producing more recycled paper, helps to reduce the cutting down of logs to make paper. Why more recycled paper? If recycled paper is seen commonly on sale, more people will buy it.
If we produce lesser products made of oil, palm oil companies will not have to clear more forests to plant palm trees.
Educating people will teach them how to save the endangered animals. Hence, instead of hunting them for their skin, they will encourage people not to hunt for their skin. By doing this, it can teach those people who treated hunting as sport to find something more meaningful to do.
Promoting conservation campaigns helps to inform the world that what some of us have done indirectly caused the plants and animals to be endangered and that what we have done have caused global warming and the worsening of air quality.

We can all help in some way to save the endangered ones.

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We can all help to save the endangered animals by not buying or selling endangered animals or animal part, not buying products made of endangered animals(e.g. ivory and rhinoceros horn), not buying food made of endangered animals, report to authorities if you know of anyone who endangered animal parts and save paper or use recycled paper.

By not buying endangered animals, animal parts, any food or products made out of endangered animals, means there will be a decrease in demand of those animals. Hence, lesser animals will be hunted for. If we know about people who sell or buy endangered animals or endangered animal products, we should report them to the authorities so that they can track down the hunters of these endangered animals and stop them.

By saving paper and using recycled paper, lesser logs will be cut down to make paper. Logging of forest will lead to shrinking of habitats, one of the main causes of animals becoming endangered.

We can also help by using lesser oil and products made of palm oil as palm oil plantations have used many of the forests to grow palm trees. As said in the previous reflective journal, there is an increase in demand of oil to make products such as lipsticks and soap. Hence, we can help by using lesser lipsticks and use soap made of lesser oil.

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I think that Orangutans’ habitats are cleared due to the increase of human needs. These are called destructive activities of humans. They are intense permitted logging, illegal logging, settlements, road constructions, conversation to palm oil plantation and farmlands. Logging cuts down the trees in the forest. As time goes by, most of the trees will be cut off, causing the Orangutans to lose their homes. Settlements are places humans live in. They clear forest and built up houses to live. Road construction is when part of the forest is cleared to make roads for more convenient travels. This causes disturbance to the orangutans. Take an example if an orangutan run out of the forest onto the road, a tall and big truck might not be able to see it and eventually run over it. Conversion to palm oil plantation and farmlands are similar to settlements. Orangutan’s habitats are cleared by chasing the animals out first then clearing the wild vegetations, lastly burning the forest. Those animals which refuse to leave will be burned away together with the forest.

Why burn the forest? The ashes left behind after burning act as fetilisers for the palm oil plantation. Burning will increase the carbon dioxide contributed into the atmosphere adding more problems to the current global warming.

Don’t they have enough land for planting palm oil? Why do they need more lands?
There is a world growing demand for palm oil, it being a major ingredient of soap, lipsticks, and food stuff, is likely to lead to a doubling in the area of oil plantations in Indonesia. Threatening the country’s already dwindling forests, and the animals that depend on them.

After knowing how much harm we have caused to the orangutans, I felt very guilty wasting so much paper in the past. I think that everyone should be responsible of their own doings and not over use resources from the forests. We should high rise houses instead of using more land area to low rise houses.

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I use to think that orangutans can be commonly found in many forests of asia. But, after I had done a research on endangered animals, then did i get to know orangutans are decreasing.

I learnt that orangutans are endangered animals and they live in forest in throughout Southeast Asia ranging all the way to Southern china. In the past, the orangutans populated to hundreds of thousands. But today, their populations are cut down by half into less than 50 000 to 60 00 and three quarter of them are found in Borneo. Hence, they are considered as endangered animals. I use to think that orangutans are not endangered animals as I have seen many of them.

Why orangutans not hunted for but are endangered? This is not caused by the change of climate neither global warming. It is due to the increase of human need. Us human beings, require more and more things as time pass. In the past, very little ladies use lipsticks. Now, it is one of the most common cosmetics used by ladies on the streets. In order to make lipsticks, they need oil. People nowadays also use more oil than in the past to cook food. Most of this oil comes from palm trees. In requirement of more oil, more of these trees need to be planted. Hence, these oil factories cleared forest, homes of these orangutans to plant more palm trees. These will leave the orangutans and other animals homeless. Having their food resource cleared, the orangutans have no food and do not know other places where they can find food, will eventually die of hunger.

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I have learnt what conservation and biodiversity are after the research.

 Conservation is to protect and maintain resources and habitats such as animals and plants or anything utilized by humans. We conserve to prevent them from going extinct. This has to be done as many animal habitats are being disturbed by human activities causing the animals to escape having nowhere to run to. Some of these animals will stay idling there looking for food and their home. Those who find that those animals are obstructing their way to do work will eventually kill them. Those cruel people are adding to those who are striving hard to conserve the animals. Besides that, everyone can also do apart to help conserve animals and plants by eating and hunting lesser of them.

I have also learnt what biodiversity means. It means all living things on earth including bacteria, fungi, plants, insects and animals. Regardless of how similar they are to other species or how useful they are to us.

Hence, conservation on biodiversity means to protect all living things on earth.  We can help conserve animals by hunting lesser of them and encouraging more people to hunt less of them and advice them to not hunt for them for unnecessary materials such as the tusk of elephants and the skin of beautiful wild dogs.

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