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Orangutans return home after Indonesia forest fires
2016-07-01 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Three orangutans rescued from forest fires in Indonesia are returned to the wild by International Animal Rescue workers.
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Orangutans rescued from Indonesian forest fires released back into wild
2016-07-01 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three orangutans rescued when forest fires destroyed their Indonesian rainforest habitats were returned to the wild on Borneo island last week. Karmele Llano Sanche, International Animal Rescue program director in Indonesia, made a three-day journey by car, boat and through the forest to release the animals in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park. "You know, it's amazing to see a big orangutan like that moving across the forest, this is home, home, back home," Sanche said. Sabtu, 25, was...
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Humans Put Amazon to More Danger, Fires
2016-06-30 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Illegal burning clears brush and small trees in order to clear land for agriculture in an already deforested section of Amazon rainforest on June 11, 2012 in Para state, Brazil. Although deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 80 percent since 2004, environmentalists fear recent changes to the Forest Code will lead to further destruction. Around 20 percent of the rainforest has already been destroyed. Threats to the Amazon rainforest are more wide-ranging than people realize, revealed a...
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PG&E Starts Aerial Patrols to Spot Fires
2016-06-28 23:00:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has begun daily aerial fire patrols across hundreds of miles of its service area to assist state and local fire agencies with early fire detection and response this summer. read more
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Southeast Asian fires emitted most carbon since 1997: scientists
2016-06-28 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forest fires that blanketed Southeast Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said on Tuesday. Singapore, Malaysia and northern Indonesia choked under a layer of toxic smog in September and October last year, caused by thousands of fires started in Indonesia to cheaply clear land for palm oil crops and for pulp and paper plantations. The fires...
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