CONTOH REPORT TEXT
In Southeast Asia, there are big apes called orangutans inthe Malay language, or the “jungle man”. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, they are only found on Kalimantan Island and the northern parts of Sumatra Island.
Orangutans mostly live in trees. They travel from tree to tree through the branches using their long limbs. They seldom roam on the ground. As they find it hard going through treetops, each day they only climb a few hundred of metres. On the tops of trees, they build a nest. Older males are often found travelling and sleeping on the ground.
Male orangutans can reach a little below 1 m tall and weigh around 77 kg. The females are smaller, only around three-quarter of a meter tall and half the weight of the male. Both male and female orangutans have coarse, long, reddish-brown fur. Appearance-wise, the males are different. Their cheeks are puffy and they have a kind of pouch hanging from their throat, which contains air sacks. These sacks are needed to make loud groans that can be heard from a far distance.
Orangutans eat mostly fruit, young leaves, inner bark, and eggs. In the dry season, they built up fat reserves to anticipate the monsoon season, which lasts from April through October, when food is much less available.
People hunt orangutans continuously, although there is a policy against killing, owning, or exporting them. Their natural habitat is fast disappearing due to illegal logging, forest cleaning for palm oil, and forest burning. In the 90s, in Sumatra and Kalimantan, thousands of orangutans were killed, and the habitat of thousands more was destroyed in major forest fires. Those fires and killings were threats to the existence of orangutans.
