We have thousand of hectares of forest destroyed by private developers, which are the natural habitat of the orangutans, but no funding was forthcoming to relocate them to safer areas. Forest fires and the haze had compounded to the rapid decline in the orangutans’ survival, which numbered about 30,000 today compared to 60,000 in 2004. May be we need RM25.95mil a year to relocate the orangutans during the haze, where more than 500,000ha of forest was destroyed in Kalimantan. The air pollution index reached more than 350 and some of the orangutans that came to the centre suffered respiratory infection. Post-haze conservation programmes need to be established especially endangered species wildlife like orangutan.

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