3. Sundaland, Asia-Pacific
The Sundaland hotspot spreads across the western half of the Indo-Malayan archipelago of 17,000 equatorial islands, including Borneo and Sumatra. The tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests’ fauna include an orangutan unique to this region, as well as two Southeast Asia rhino species. Industrial forestry and international animal trade for food and medicine claim the flora and fauna here. Commercial uses like rubber, oil palm, and pulp production, along with illegal and unsustainable logging and non-timber forest has left only about seven percent of the original extent.
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