THOMSON, CARROLL COUNTY, ILLINOIS LAND FOR SALE: 1 - 13 of 13 listings.
Confidence votes 13. The proboscis monkey, is endangered because land shortage due to people building plantations and houses. Before 2006, people were hunting them. and now there is only about 3,000 left in the island Borneo and Sarawak.he proboscis monkey is an endangered species due to habitat loss and hunting. To see a picture of the proboscis monkey, see the related link.
Poaching threatens the livelihoods of the estimated 12,000-15,000 hunter-gatherers who live in the wildlife sanctuary. Lucrative but illegal. In an effort to preserve the rare Mreah Prew Phnom tree, the Cambodian government made the production of sassafras oil illegal in 2004. However, since the purity of Cambodian sassafras oil makes it highly sought after, it remains a lucrative trade, worth millions of dollars.