6 FEBRUARY 1998. INDONESIA: FIRE

Associated Press filed a report that 500,000 acre Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan faces fires that could threaten its populations of orangutans and proboscis monkeys. Fires were first observed on 31 January and are now spreading rapidly through the park .

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