The Forest Roamers...

Illegal Trade
The trade in baby orangutans, though illegal, continues to thrive today.
Many hundreds of infant orangutans are taken from the wild for the pet trade every year. This is done by killing the mother and taking the baby. It is estimated that 4-5 orangutans die for every baby reaching the market. They can die as a result of injury from falling several hundred feet to the forest floor when their mother was shot, of the trauma of seeing their mother killed and possibly eaten, from contracting diseases from humans (they are susceptible to all human disease), or from succumbing to the poor conditions in which they are often kept following their capture.
Though infant orangutans are extremely cute, they make very bad pets. All wild animals quickly outgrow being dependent, cuddly infants and grow into dangerous and unmanageable, very strong adults, completely unsuitable as pets.
People do not understand about the intelligence and sensitivity of orangutans, experiencing confinement so much more intense than other animals.
As long as the demand for orangutan babies continues both inside Indonesia and beyond, poachers and hunters will continue to kill innocent orangutan mothers.

-AMIRA- N -PUTRI-