Fires in Indonesian forest could wipe out 200 orangutans by year's end

Associated Press: Hundreds of critically endangered orangutans in western Indonesia could be wiped out by the year's end if palm oil companies keep setting land-clearing fires in their peat swamp forests, conservationists warned Thursday. "They are just barely hanging on," Ian Singleton, conservation director of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program, said of the Sumatran orangutans who live in the Tripa forest on the coast of Aceh province. "It is no longer several years away, but just a few months or even...

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