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.
The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or long-nosed monkey, known as the bekantan in Indonesia, is a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey that is endemic to the southeast Asian island of Borneo.he monkey also goes by the Malay name monyet belanda (Dutch monkey), or even orang belanda (Dutchman), as Indonesians remarked that the Dutch colonisers often had similarly large bellies and noses. This species of monkey is easily identifiable because of its unusually large nose.