Indonesia Fires Threaten Critically Endangered Orangutan: IUCN
The fires have burned 202,000 hectares nationwide since January, and rescuers have evacuated 53 orangutans as smoke spreads across the region.
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature reported Saturday that wildfires in Indonesian Borneo threaten 52 percent of the Bornean orangutan population, including 13 of the 20 largest remaining groups.
- Indonesia has battled fires for weeks, sending suffocating haze across Malaysia and Singapore; the Nusantara Atlas project estimates nearly 900,000 hectares burned between January and August.
- As of Tuesday, Indonesia rescued 100 animals, including 53 orangutans threatened by blazes. Smoke exposure forces physiological changes in orangutans, including fat breakdown and elevated immune demands.
- Ronna Saab of the Forum Konservasi Orangutan Indonesia stated, "Emergency response must be followed by sustained investment in preventing future fires." Saab urged protecting peatlands and addressing drainage.
- Conservationists emphasize authorities must move beyond immediate emergency responses to implement long-term restoration. Rewetting peatlands and preventing burned forest conversion remain critical to ensuring wild population viability.
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For weeks Indonesia has been fighting forest fires on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. 100 animals have been rescued from affected areas, including 53 orangutans.
Indonesia fires threaten critically endangered orangutan: IUCN
Wildfires that tore through Indonesian Borneo's vast tropical forests have increased pressure on critically endangered Bornean orangutans, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said Saturday.
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Forest fires in the tropical forests of the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo have further increased the pressure on the critically endangered orangutans. This is reported by the international nature conservation organization IUCN.
Indonesia fires threatens critically-endangered orangutan: IUCN
Indonesia has been battling fires for weeks in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, sending suffocating haze across the islands and neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore. Fires are currently burning within habitats containing 52 percent of Borneo's orangutan population, including 13 of the 20 largest remaining populations, it said. "Fire and smoke exposure impose measurable physiological, behavioural and ecological costs on orangutans in peat forest habit…
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