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Indonesia rescues six orangutans from fires in a week
Rescuers anaesthetized the animals before moving them to a rehabilitation center as fires cut off access to their forest habitat.
- On Thursday, Indonesian authorities reported the rescue of 6 orangutans, including 2 nursing infants, from wildfires on Borneo island, bringing the total saved to 15 in a month.
- Intensified by a strong El Nino, Indonesia's dry season from July to October has fueled widespread wildfires that destroyed vast land, leaving the primates stuck without access to their forest homes.
- In West Kalimantan's Pemangkat village, YIARI rescuers recovered the animals where a large fire burned just 200m from the group; all six were transported to a rehabilitation center in Ketapang.
- The primates' movement through plantations increases potential conflict with human communities, while Greenpeace estimates 35 million people in Indonesia face exposure to toxic haze containing dangerous PM2.5 particles.
- Facing an estimated 895,657 hectares of burnt land, authorities deployed 43,000 firefighters to combat the blazes, as a Japanese navy ship arrived in West Kalimantan with three helicopters for water bombing.
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Six orangutans, including two nursing cubs, were rescued from raging fires on the Indonesian island of Borneo last week, authorities and rescuers said Thursday, bringing the total number of animals rescued in a month to 15.
·Vilnius, Lithuania
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Six orangutans were evacuated from a community plantation due to forest and land fires, bringing the total number of rescued animals to 15 individuals.
Six orangutans, including two babies, trapped in fires ravaging the island of Borneo, have been rescued over the past week, bringing the number of primates saved in a month to 15, the Indonesian authorities announced on Thursday.
·Montreal, Canada
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