Hello Greenzoners! We already spoke about phytoplankton, sea otters and others. Now let’s talk about something more exotic – orangutans. 🙂
Recently orangutan’s populaion on Sumatra island (south-east Asia) have undergone significant decline. For now there’s only 6,600 individuals left and orangutans are now endangered species. The reason of this reduction is, as it often occured, massive deforestation of tropical areas. (more…)
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Eco News #25 – Declining orangutan population
November 5th, 2012Eco News 24# – declining mountain meadows
November 4th, 2012Hello Greenzoners, I hope you are having good day in which we greet you with new Eco News. 😉
Mountain meadows are slowly declining and being destroyed in the Northern Pacific areas. Once huge tracts of green grass and rare, wild flowers, now they are being dominated by spreading trees and other thick and territorialy invasive plant species. The reason behind this is progressing global warming and rising temperature (more…)