Orangutans are tied to the ground as villagers look on in Sungai Pinyuh, Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, November 22, 2010. The primates were captured as they came to the village to look for food and were beaten, resulting to the death of one orangutan, according to a villager. Rainforests cover 60 percent of Indonesia, and yet the country is one of the world's leading emitters of the greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. The reason is that Indonesia also has one of the planet's fastest rates of deforestation. Deforestation is destroying the natural habitats of the primate and driving them out of forests.

A man and his son perform with a bear for money in a street in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Nov. 5 2010. The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Moon bear or White-chested bear, is a medium-sized species of bear, largely adapted for arboreal life, which occurs through much of southern Asia, Korea, northeastern China, the Russian far east and limited parts of Japan. It is classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a vulnerable species, mostly due to deforestation and active hunting for its body parts.