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Orang-utans and Tigers

Indonesia's rainforest is disappearing faster than any other rainforest in the world. An area the size of Belgium is destroyed every year and experts predict that by 2010 most of Indonesia's lowland rainforests will be gone from Sumatra and Borneo. The Indonesian rainforest is a haven for wildlife, with the longest list of endangered species in the world. This includes the orang-utan, which is only found in Sumatra and Borneo and whose numbers have halved in just 10 years and the Sumatran tiger, of which less than 500 remain.

Greenpeace/CommonDreams Mar.19.04