印尼婆罗洲野火持续：8只红毛猩猩转移安置，自8月以来已救援46只
雅加达——印度尼西亚当局与保育人员已将8只红毛猩猩转移到安全地点。这批红毛猩猩的栖息地被婆罗洲森林大火摧毁，相关消息于10月11日（周日）对外公布，路透社10月12日做了报道。
据印尼政府与野生动物基金会YIARI（Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia）发表的声明，这8只红毛猩猩是在今年8月至9月间从多处地点救出的，其中包括3对母子组合和2只未成年雄性。它们被安置到Batu Nyambu保护林，声明称此举有望让它们有机会重返自然生活状态。转移过程历经汽车运输6小时、乘船1小时、再徒步2小时，装着红毛猩猩的笼子由竹竿抬运；转移前，YIARI的保育人员先为它们做了健康检查。
西加里曼丹省自然资源保护局局长穆尔兰·达梅里亚·帕内（Murlan Dameria Pane）表示，自8月以来，该局与YIARI已救援了46只受火灾影响的红毛猩猩。
这场火灾是印尼11年来最严重的一轮野火，主要发生在苏门答腊岛和婆罗洲岛。印尼政府此前警告，在厄尔尼诺天气模式的助推下，火势可能持续到11月。今年1月至7月，印尼过火面积已约20.2万公顷（约50万英亩）；此后月份尚无官方数据，但非政府组织估计8月以来又烧毁了至少60万公顷。
火灾产生的烟霾已在印尼造成约17.5万例呼吸道疾病病例，并飘散到邻国新加坡和马来西亚；马来西亚多所学校上周五因空气质量恶化而停课。
红毛猩猩是极危物种，野生种群只分布在婆罗洲和苏门答腊两岛，世界野生动物基金会（WWF）指出，印尼是全部3个已知红毛猩猩物种的栖息地；森林砍伐、野火和偷猎是其数量持续下降的主要原因。
来源：据路透社10月12日报道（经The Business Standard转载）及印尼政府与YIARI联合声明整理。
Indonesia Moves Eight Orangutans to Safety as Borneo Fires Rage; 46 Rescued Since August
JAKARTA — Indonesian authorities and conservation workers have moved eight orangutans to a safe location after the endangered primates' forest homes on Borneo were destroyed by wildfires, officials announced on Sunday, October 11, in a development reported by Reuters on October 12.
According to a joint statement by the Indonesian government and the wildlife foundation Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia (YIARI), the eight animals — three mother-and-child pairs and two adolescent males — were rescued between August and September from several locations. They were relocated to the Batu Nyambu protected forest, which the statement said is expected to give them a chance to return to living naturally. The move took six hours by car, one hour by boat and two more hours on foot, with the cages carried on bamboo poles; YIARI conservationists checked the animals' health before the transfer.
Murlan Dameria Pane, head of the West Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency, said the agency and YIARI have rescued 46 fire-affected orangutans since August.
Indonesia is battling its most intense wildfires in 11 years, mainly on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and the government has warned the blazes could continue until November, aggravated by the El Niño weather pattern. Fires burned around 202,000 hectares (500,000 acres) from January to July; no official data has been released for subsequent months, but non-governmental organisations estimate at least 600,000 more hectares have burned since then.
Haze from the fires has caused about 175,000 cases of respiratory illness in Indonesia and has drifted into neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia, where many schools were closed last Friday as air quality deteriorated.
Orangutans are critically endangered great apes found in the wild only on Borneo and Sumatra, and Indonesia is home to all three recognised species, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Their populations have declined due to deforestation, wildfires and poaching.
Source: Reuters, October 12, via The Business Standard; joint statement by the Indonesian government and YIARI.
图片来源：加里曼丹的婆罗洲红毛猩猩（Pongo pygmaeus），A.Baihaqi 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0（Wikimedia Commons）；为物种资料图，非本次获救个体
