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Orangutans threatened by palm oil plantations, habitat loss from logging and mining. Females killed and eaten and babies taken for pet trade. Reforestation may save them.

New species are discovered regularly, often when their environment is already in danger. Saving them can save their habitats and entire ecosystems.

Leasing rainforests for conservation purposes is an alternative to national parks and reserves that provides benefits to local economies and helps combat climate change.

The orangutan habitat is confined to the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. The environmental damage to the habitat could lead to the extinction of the orangutan.

Facing great personal risk, René Ngongo has tirelessly campaigned to protect and conserve the Congo Basin Forests - the second largest tropical forest in the word.

The continuing environmental damage to tropical rainforests, dubbed the "Lungs of the Earth", has negative impacts on biodiversity, climate and ecosystems.

The Asian elephant has played a central role in Thai history, yet rapidly shrinking habitat and a drastic reduction in numbers mean that it is now an endangered species.

Sinharaja rainforest in South West Sri Lanka is a prime area of rainforest that has high rainfall encouraging new species of birds, plants, insects and mammals.

Teaching Indonesian villagers how to care for and grow tree seedlings instead of chopping trees down, means endangered orangutans gain new areas of forest to live in

The Ghost Forest, an art installation of tree stumps from the rainforest, aims to raise awareness of the role of deforestation in climate change.

Both Mexico and the United States are contributing to the potential extinction of the monarch butterfly despite the creation of a biosphere reserve to protect them.

The Amazon rainforest, considered the lungs of the planet, continues to decline. This tropical forest is crucial in the battle against global warming.

All bear species found in Asia are listed as vulnerable or endangered. Some of the small isolated populations of the brown bear in Europe are also at risk of extinction.

Giant pandas are symbolic. To children, they are fat cartoon characters. To the Chinese, they are cultural icons. To conservationists, they are faces of endangerment.

Malayan tigers haven't officially been around long. And if humans continue to hunt them and destroy their habitat, these tigers won't be around much longer.