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About 87 percent of the world's orangutans live on Borneo, but their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past two decades.
世界上約87%的紅毛猩猩生活在婆羅洲，但是在過去二十年的時間里，他們的數量急劇下降。
This is due to the systematic destruction of the rainforest for a cheap, mass-produced commodity few consumers have even heard of: palm oil.
這是因為熱帶雨林遭到蓄意破壞，只為得到一種大批生產的廉價商品，甚至只有為數不多的人聽說過這種商品名字：棕櫚油。
About half of the packaged items in our grocery stores contain palm oil.
食品商店中約有一半的包裝商品都含有棕櫚油。
To produce the oil, large portions of rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia are cleared out every year.
為了生產這種油，每年在印度尼西亞和馬拉西亞都有大面積的雨林遭到清除。
This deforestation destroys fragile, biodiverse habitats on which animals such as orangutans — but also rhinos, tigers and elephants — depend.
這種森林砍伐破壞了脆弱的生物多樣化棲息地，而這些棲息地是紅毛猩猩、犀牛、老虎、大象等動物生活的地方。
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