Orang-U-Tan I Didn’t Say Orange?

Go ahead.  Click on the ultra cute pic of the orangutan.  I’ll wait……….. Now, take your widest black magic marker, and wipe it out!  I don’t care if you can’t stay within the lines, wipe it out.  Okay, okay, I’m being overdramatic…or am I?

According to treehugger, the top 25 most endangered primates could all fit inside a football stadium.   And overall, almost 30% of all primates are threatened with extinction. 

Now for those of you who wouldn’t believe a website called treehugger (I mean, they don’t even capitalize), what about the more reputable TreeSnuggler and TreeSpooner?  Actually treehugger.com is owned by the very reputable Discover Magazine.

And for those of you who think football stadiums are big, think of it this way.  Look at your finger nail.  If the top 25 endangered primates fit inside your finger nail, the number of species that used to exist would represent... a giant finger nail (maybe the worst analogy ever.)

What’s the cause?  Poaching.  Of course.  But the biggie, tropical deforestation.   Some Junk Mailers argue they like to use orangutan-habitated forests.  “They soften the wood.”  No I’m not serious.  About tropical deforestation though, I am serious.

To  do more, check out Conservation International Website.

I’ll miss you Proculobus badious waldroni.

Sanjiv