Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo
- Wildfires in Indonesia are sweeping through a critical research site for Bornean orangutans and are now threatening a celebrated research camp, home to one of the world’s longest-running studies of wild apes.
- In the past few days, the fires have burned within 200 metres of Rangkong research station, a satellite of Cabang Panti research station, which lies about four miles north in Gunung Palung national park.
- Hundreds of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), one of three orangutan species, live in the direct vicinity of the research stations, with more than 2,500 thought to inhabit the park, many
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- Wildfires in Indonesia are sweeping through a critical research site for Bornean orangutans and are now threatening a celebrated research camp, home to one of the world’s longest-running studies of wild apes.
- In the past few days, the fires have burned within 200 metres of Rangkong research station, a satellite of Cabang Panti research station, which lies about four miles north in Gunung Palung national park.
- Hundreds of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), one of three orangutan species, live in the direct vicinity of the research stations, with more than 2,500 thought to inhabit the park, many
Sources: Guardian