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Puxi Campus Grade 4: Save the Orangutans

March 20, 2023

In the grade four geography class in Puxi campus, students learned the different types of orangutans, their living habits, history and habitats.

With the help of various paper and video materials, students learned that orangutans can live up to 40 years in the wild, and they live most of their lives high up in the tree canopy. Their elongated and curved fingers and gripping feet can help them easily move around in the treetops. However, orangutans’ habitat is facing a huge threat. Indonesia and Malaysia, which are home to orangutans, produce 90% of the world’s palm oil. Poor land use led to the widespread fragmentation of natural forests, which leaves little pockets of land with no connecting forested corridors for the apes to travel along. It caused huge decline of the number of orangutans in local areas.

After being aware of the situation of orangutans, students called for the less use of palm oils and less deforestation. Grade 4 students made posters to introduce the damage caused by deforestation and mass production of palm oil.

In this unit, students have realized the dilemma among human development, environmental protection and animal living, and started to actively care about the environment and other lives on earth.

Written by Wu Yin

Pictures by Wu Yin

Edited by Serene Yang, Niall Keenan