Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo
Credit: Gloria Dickie
Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Rangkong research station work round the clock to stave off blaze 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. Continue reading...