orangutans are intelligent apes that live in the forests of the Asian of Sumatra and Borneo.because of a growing human population, those forests are being cut down for lumber and to create farmland. The less forest there is,the fewer the orangutans that can be supported.To add to the problem, orangutans reproduce very slowly. On average,females have just two or three babies over their lifetimes.Today,there are only two thousand orangutans in Borneo and even fewer in Sumatra.