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"Rescuers scramble to save orangutans as El Niño-boosted fires spread across Borneo"
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Rescuers scramble to save orangutans as El Niño-boosted fires spread across Borneo
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — As a strengthening El Niño fuels wildfires across much of Indonesia, NGO and government conservationists are at work in forests here trying to save an increasing number of orangutans from burning landscapes. “Seven individuals were rescued through August,” said Heribertus Suciadi, spokesperson for Yayasan International Animal Rescue Indonesia (YIARI), a Borneo-based NGO […]