Endangered Animals In The Indonesian Rainforest

The expert said that this lizard is the living prehistoric animal.

Endangered animals in the indonesian rainforest. The rainforests of Indonesia once covered 84 of the countries 17508 islands CIA World Factbook Statistic providing a safe haven for thousands of different species. 2020 saw a significant increase in poaching and illegal activities in part caused by the collapse of the tourism industry. While poaching claims most tigers each year deforestation remains a serious threat.

Of Indonesian species 772 species are threatened or endangered giving Indonesia the third highest number of threatened species of any country in the world. However due to climate change and human encroachment of land many of these animals are endangered or threatened. The species is listed as Critically Endangered and is threatened by continued degradation of the Leuser Ecosystem.

At the turn of the 20th. Perhaps one of the most endangered species in the world these gentle and shy animals were once found extensively in the rainforest. Golden Lion Tamarin Monkey.

They can eat animal bigger than their body. The Sumatran Rhino is the most critically endangered rhino in the world as well as the Bornean Pygmy Elephant. The forests are home to marvelous creatures like the proboscis monkey sun bear clouded leopard and flying fox bat and endangered animals like the sumatran tiger sumatran rhino and bornean elephant.

Of Indonesias approximately 40 primate species 20 have lost more than half their original habitat in the last ten years. Orangutans are among those species. The Bornean Orangutan thrives throughout the forest.

The bird has a black plume with white plumes but. These Gorillas found in the eastern lowland are completely herbivorous. Containing the largest expanse of rainforest in all of Asia it is home to hundreds of distinct Indigenous languages and over 3000 animal species including Sumatran tigers pygmy elephants rhinoceros and orangutans.