blog post 3 limiting factors in your ecosystem: deforestation in Borneo due to palm oil plantations
Byone living thing that is impacted by it is orangutan. It uses the trees for its habitat and for food. They are pushing them out of their natural habitat and forcing them in a new one or into a zoo. A new study calculates that the island of Borneo lost nearly 150,000 orangutans in the period between 1999 and 2015, largely as a result of deforestation and killing.
humans are pushing the orangutan out of there natural habitat and sometimes tranquilizing them to move them. they also killed a lot of apes. There were an estimated 104,700 of the critically endangered apes left as of 2012.
