Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

Mongabay
Jan 24, 2020, 8:22 am221 pts
JAKARTA — The fires that raze vast swaths of Indonesian Borneo every year are having a lasting health impact on the region’s critically endangered orangutans that threatens them with extinction, a new study has found. The fires, which in nearly all cases are started to clear land for plantations, such as…

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