Endangered Animals In The Indonesian Rainforest

Types of Endangered Rainforest Animals Gorilla.

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. The bird has a black plume with white plumes but. The Bornean Orangutan thrives throughout the forest.

Komodo are also scavenger animal and the will not hesitate to eat the carcasses. These jungles animals are likewise among the signs of South Sulawesi province in Indonesia. At the turn of the 20th.

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 animal has five life cycles and can live for more than 50 years. Indonesias rainforests are being decimated leaving the last remaining Indonesian elephants orangutans tigers and rhinoceros teetering on the verge of disappearing from the Earth forever.

These Gorillas found in the eastern lowland are completely herbivorous. Orangutans are among those species. Komodo is carnivorous animal.

The species is listed as Critically Endangered and is threatened by continued degradation of the Leuser Ecosystem. The rainforest of the area has many critically endangered and incredibly unique species. It is estimated that more than 50 percent of the total animal species are native to the rainforests.

Perhaps one of the most endangered species in the world these gentle and shy animals were once found extensively in the rainforest. However due to climate change and human encroachment of land many of these animals are endangered or threatened. Of Indonesian species 772 species are threatened or endangered giving Indonesia the third highest number of threatened species of any country in the world.