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Indonesia blazes threaten endangered orangutans

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Nature

Publication Date
2015-11-03

The world’s only wild orangutans — already besieged by logging, hunting, pet trading and the steady expansion of palm-oil plantations — are now threatened by forest fires that have burned for months on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in southeast Asia.

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http://www.nature.com/news/indonesia-blazes-threaten-endangered-orangutans-1.18714