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  • 7 weeks ago
On Sunday (August 30) morning, a farmer in Ketapang, West Kalimantan on Borneo island - the province hardest-hit by raging forest fires - 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. After finding the orangutan, he and other residents immediately called for help. - REUTERS

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00:04I'm pretty sure that this orangutan just got hypoxia, which is caused because of the smoke,
00:11very thick smoke in the area and different fires around the village where we found him,
00:20where we rescued him.
00:28I believe that there are still many orangutans in the same situation as these orangutans that
00:33we have rescued these last few days.
00:35Even if the fires stopped today, I think a lot of the orangutans are already in a really
00:42dark situation because they have been left without enough food or enough room.
00:51Thank you very much.

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