Palangka RayaFruit production fell for 2.5 years after Borneo’s 2015 fires.
Indonesia faces one of its worst wildfire seasons in over a decade, with Kalimantan’s peatlands smoldering.
Orangutans lost lean body mass as females rested more, travelled less and ate lower-quality fallback foods.
“You hear them coughing,” said Maria van Noordwijk, a Max Planck research fellow who helped establish Tuanan.
Tuanan’s researchers, monitoring since 2003, can trace this year’s fires the same way.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org leans critical
- ties the Borneo fires to long-term orangutan behaviour, using Tuanan's monitoring records since 2003 to show effects lasting years after the 2015 burns
Sources: Phys.org