印度尼西亚帕朗卡拉亚——在印度尼西亚的婆罗洲，一只红毛猩猩紧紧抓住一棵几乎光秃秃的树顶，下方森林大火产生的浓烟不断飘向它。
PALANGKARAYA, INDONESIA – The orangutan clings to the top of a mostly leafless tree in Indonesia’s Borneo, as waves of thick smoke from the forest fires burning below waft over her.
这只被昵称为“诺维塔”的红毛猩猩出现在一家环保组织发布的视频中。近几个月来，数十只红毛猩猩从苏门答腊和婆罗洲各地的野火中被救出，诺维塔便是其中之一。
Nicknamed Novita, the ape shown in footage released by a conservation group is among dozens that have been rescued from wildfires burning across parts of Sumatra and Borneo in recent months.
据当局称，周四还有一只名叫巴拉的雄性红毛猩猩从浓烟中被救出。
They include Bara, a male orangutan plucked from the haze on Thursday, authorities said.
当地自然资源保护机构官员汉迪·纳索卡周五表示：“我们在一片被烧毁的土地上的一棵树顶发现了它。由于周边地区正在发生火灾，该区域的烟雾十分浓重。”
“He was found on top of a tree on razed land. The haze was quite thick in the area because fires were burning around there,” Handi Nasoka, a local natural resources conservation agency official, said on Friday.
“看到那些刚刚被火烧过的土地……我们不敢贸然断定它一定能存活下来。”汉迪补充道，巴拉“身体状况相对良好，只有一些轻微的烧伤”，之后它将被转移至位于中加里曼丹省、距离获救地点不远的一处自然保护区。
“Seeing the condition of the recently burned lands ... we didn’t dare to gamble and assume he’ll survive.”Bara was “relatively healthy, with minor burn injuries,” Handi added, and will be moved to a nature reserve elsewhere in the Central Kalimantan region where he was rescued.
野火给本就濒临灭绝的红毛猩猩带来了巨大生存压力，迫使当地环保组织和当局紧急展开救援行动，帮助那些吸入大量烟雾或遭受烧伤的红毛猩猩。
Wildfires have piled pressure on already endangered orangutans, forcing local groups and authorities to carry out high-stakes rescues of animals suffering smoke inhalation and burns.
上个月获救后，这只年龄估计在3至4岁左右的雌性红毛猩猩诺维塔目前仍被安置在帕朗卡拉亚的尼亚鲁门滕康复中心。
Novita, a female estimated to be 3 to 4byears old, remains at the Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation center in Indonesia’s Palangkaraya after being rescued last month.
中加里曼丹省自然资源保护机构负责人安迪·穆罕默德·卡达菲周四对记者说：“诺维塔仍在接受精心治疗。”
“Novita is still receiving intensive care,” Andi Muhammad Khadafi, head of the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency, told reporters on Thursday.
“我们得知它手脚上的烧伤正在好转，不过即便痊愈，它也很难完全恢复到烧伤前的状态。”他补充道，“由于大火肆虐，它不得不离开自己的栖息地，我们才不得不实施救援。”
“We’ve been told that the burns on her hands and feet are improving, although even after she recovers, she may not return 100% to how she was before she suffered the burns.”“She had to leave her habitat, and we had to rescue her, primarily because of the flames,” he added.
诺维塔是由婆罗洲红毛猩猩生存基金会救下的，该基金会已经救助了多只受森林大火影响的红毛猩猩。
Novita was rescued by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, which has taken in several apes caught up in forest fires.
今年9月下旬，人们发现这只动物紧紧攀附在一棵树上。救援人员迅速赶到现场，先给它注射镇静剂，随后又为其提供氧气并输液，最后将其转移至康复中心。
She was found clinging to a tree in late September and tranquilized by a rescue team, who administered oxygen and intravenous fluids before moving her to the rehabilitation center.
“我们是从一片着火的区域中救出它的。在我们赶到前，它不得不穿过火海才能爬到树上，因此它的脚底和脚趾都出现了烧伤，”该保护基金会首席执行官贾马廷·西希特说道。
“We rescued her from an area that was burning. Before we reached her, she had to walk through the fire to get to the tree and climb it, so the soles of her feet and her toes were burned,” said foundation CEO Jamartin Sihite.
每年旱季，印度尼西亚都会遭遇野火侵袭，而在加里曼丹岛，这一情况通常在7月至9月间最为严重。
Indonesia regularly battles wildfires during the dry season, which in Borneo typically peaks between July and September.
今年火灾频发，部分原因在于厄尔尼诺现象的影响——此次厄尔尼诺的强度预计将创下近40年来有相关记录以来的最高水平。
The fires have intensified this year in part because of the El Nino weather phenomenon, set to be one of the strongest since comparable records began four decades ago.
厄尔尼诺现象通常会导致印度尼西亚出现严重干旱，但专家指出，刀耕火种的传统耕作方式以及泥炭地干涸现象，使得原本不易起火的地区也变得极易发生火灾。
El Nino typically brings severe drought to Indonesia, but experts note that slash-and-burn practices and drying of peatlands have made previously resistant landscapes increasingly fire-prone.
据印尼政府公布的数据，仅今年1月至7月期间，就有超过20.2万公顷的土地被大火烧毁，此后这一数据便再未更新。
Between January and July alone, more than 202,000 hectares were razed by fire, according to government figures that have not been updated since.
通过卫星监测开展的“努沙登加拉地图”项目估算，截至8月底，被烧毁的土地面积已接近89.6万公顷——这一数值相当于大伦敦地区面积的5倍以上。
The Nusantara Atlas project, which uses satellite monitoring, estimated nearly 896,000 hectares — over five times the size of Greater London — had burned by the end of August.
这些火灾在当地引发了严重的雾霾，导致数万例呼吸道疾病病例出现；同时，新加坡和马来西亚的空气质量也因之急剧恶化。
The fires have created severe haze locally, with tens of thousands of cases of respiratory illnesses, and also caused regional air pollution spikes in Singapore and Malaysia.