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  • 7 weeks ago
On Sunday (Aug 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.

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00:06I'm pretty sure that this orangutan just got hypoxia, which is caused because of the smoke,
00:13very thick smoke in the area and different fires around the village where we found him,
00:21when we rescued him.
00:31I believe that there are still many orangutans in the same situation as these orangutans that we have rescued these
00:37last few days.
00:38Even if the fires stopped today, I think a lot of the orangutans are already in a really dark situation
00:46because they have been left without enough food or enough room.

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