Why should we save orangutans ?

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There are plenty of photos and articles about orangutans on my website which is www.agoodplace.co.uk

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There is something about having eye contact with these peaceful vegetarians that just makes you think. They are one of humankind’s closest relatives in the animal kingdom sharing 96.4% the same DNA as us. This perhaps gives us a moral obligation to ensure their survival. But more importantly they are a keystone species and a symbol for the threatened rain forests that are their home.

If we can protect the orangutan we also save literally millions of insects, thousands of plants and hundreds of birds and mammal species. But ultimately we also help human beings. These forests are important for the people that live in or near them. But there are also wider implications of their benefit to the world as CO₂ sinks.

The work of the Orangutan Foundation is vital to ensure that there is a future for the orangutan and its habitat. Please visit their website for further information on their projects: www.orangutan.org.uk

If you are interested in visiting orangutans in their natural habitat please visit http://www.agoodplace.co.uk I run photography tours to the Tanjung Puting national park in Borneo. This national park is home to a population of over 4000 orangutans along with a huge array of other wildlife. The profit from these orangutan holidays is donated to the orangutan foundation whose work is helping to protect this area.