Eight orangutans find new forest home in Indonesia after wildfire rescue
Eight endangered orangutans were released into a protected forest in Indonesia after wildfires destroyed their habitat.
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Eight endangered orangutans were released into a protected forest in Indonesia after wildfires destroyed their habitat.
Indonesian authorities and conservation workers have successfully moved eight โ orangutans to a safe โ location after the endangered โ primatesโ homes were destroyed by wildfires in the forests of Borneo. The Southeast Asian nation is battling its most intense wildfires in 11 years, mainly on Sumatra and Borneo islands, and the โgovernment has warned the blazes could continue until November, aggravated by the El Nino weather pattern. Three mother-child pairs and two adolescent male orangutans were...
The critically endangered apes were rescued from intense wildfires that destroyed their habitat in August and September.
The orangutans, generally found in the wild in Borneo and Sumatra, were rescued from a forest in Odisha's Balasore district on September 8, triggering a probe into possible trafficking of these animals