Endangered Animals In The Indonesian Rainforest

Golden Lion Tamarin Monkey.

Endangered animals in the indonesian rainforest. 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. The Bornean Orangutan thrives throughout the forest. They can eat animal bigger than their body.

However due to climate change and human encroachment of land many of these animals are endangered or threatened. Predators such as the elusive Clouded Leopard and the Sun Bear loom around the thick forestry. It is estimated that more than 50 percent of the total animal species are native to the rainforests.

Also called knobbed hornbill Sulawesi wrinkled hornbill Rhyticeros cassidix is the most colorful hornbill types. Of Indonesian species 772 species are threatened or endangered giving Indonesia the third highest number of threatened species of any country in the world. 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.

The Sumatran Rhino is the most critically endangered rhino in the world as well as the Bornean Pygmy Elephant. At the turn of the 20th. Orangutans are among those species.

Komodo are also scavenger animal and the will not hesitate to eat the carcasses. 2020 saw a significant increase in poaching and illegal activities in part caused by the collapse of the tourism industry. The expert said that this lizard is the living prehistoric animal.

About 80 of their population has gone extinct which is a huge cause of concern. Critically Endangered The last of Indonesias tigersnow fewer than 400are holding on for survival in the remaining patches of forests on the island of Sumatra. The animal has five life cycles and can live for more than 50 years.