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Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo

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Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo
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Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Cabang Panti 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

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