Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Forestry has evacuated a Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) found in weak condition and suspected of being exposed to wildfire smoke near a community oil palm plantation in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan. Head of the West Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservat»»»

Asia Asia Wildlife organization Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia has rescued seven orangutans from fires so far, as the country battles to contain haze from forest and land fires An orangutan, named Sampurna, receives emergency treatments after being rescued, at a palm-oil plantation ne»»»

KETAPANG, Indonesia – On the morning of Aug 30, Jais, a farmer in Ketapang, West Kalimantan on Borneo island – the province hardest-hit by – was en route to his farm when he found an orangutan writhing on the ground in a weak state on a palm-oil plantation near the fire site. “It was very weak, the»»»