尼尼克·卡尔米尼，安德伊·雅特米科 雅加达，印度尼西亚 — — 印度尼西亚婆罗洲的野火摧毁了大片红毛猩猩栖息地几周后，八只濒危红毛猩猩被放归受保护的森林，一个保护组织表示。
NINIEK KARMINI, ANDI JATMIKO JAKARTA, Indonesia — Eight endangered orangutans were released into a protected forest weeks after wildfires destroyed large swaths of their habitat in IndonesianBorneo, a conservation group said.
这些红毛猩猩包括三只带婴儿的母亲和两只青少年雄性红毛猩猩，它们是在八月至九月期间被野火肆虐的加泰邦和北加央县地区获救的。
The orangutans, including three mothers with infants and two adolescent males, were rescued from areas in Ketapang and North Kayong regencies that were ravaged by fires between August and September.
印度尼西亚自然康复倡议基金会（YIARI）发言人赫尔伯特us·苏恰迪表示，这些动物于10月8日被转移到西加里曼丹省的巴图尼亚姆布受保护森林。
The animals were moved Oct. 8 to Batu Nyambu protected forest in West Kalimantan province, said Heribertus Suciadi, a spokesperson for the Indonesian Nature Rehabilitation Initiative Foundation, or YIARI.
苏恰迪周一告诉美联社，野火切断了栖息地走廊，减少了食物来源的获取，迫使这些类人猿进入人们居住的种植园寻找食物和庇护所，并被困在那里。
The wildfires cut off habitat corridors and reduced access to food sources, forcing the apes into plantations inhabited by people in search of food and shelter and stranding them there, Suciadi told The Associated Press on Monday.
他说：“它们没有烧伤、开放性伤口、骨折或其他危及生命的伤害，但看来正遭受营养不良和脱水的困扰。”
“They had no burns, open wounds, broken bones or other life-threatening injuries, but appeared to be suffering from malnutrition and dehydration,” Suciadi said.
获救的红毛猩猩中包括一只名为“妈妈曼”的雌性红毛猩猩及其婴儿“曼”，它们曾在被种植园包围的小森林斑块中被监测数月。苏恰迪表示，由于火势扩大和浓烟，它们在早九月被疏散前没有安全路线返回更大的森林。
Among those rescued were a female orangutan known as Mama Man and her infant, Man, who had been monitored for months in a small forest patch surrounded by plantations. Expanding fires and heavy smoke left them with no safe route back to larger forests before they were evacuated in early September, Suciadi said.
苏恰迪还说，另外两对母婴和两只幼年雄性红毛猩猩在加泰邦和北加央县附近村庄周边森林被大火席卷后，也被发现处于类似状况。
Two other mother-and-infant pairs and two juvenile males were found in similar conditions after fires swept through forests near villages in Ketapang and North Kayong, Suciadi said.
这些红毛猩猩在YIARI运营的康复中心接受了兽医检查和观察，以确保它们健康到足以返回野外。YIARI运营主管阿吉托埃·兰廷在它们释放前表示，巴图尼亚姆布的释放地点被选中是因为尽管发生了野火，该地区仍基本保持完整，并提供丰富的食物来源、水源、筑巢树木以及与邻近森林的连通性。
The orangutans underwent veterinary examinations and observation at a rehabilitation center operated by YIARI to ensure they were healthy enough to return to the wild. The release site in Batu Nyambu was selected because the area remains largely intact despite wildfires and offers abundant food sources, water, nesting trees and connections to neighboring forests, YIARI Operational Director Argitoe Ranting said before their release.
“我们希望确保被救的红毛猩猩不是仅仅从一个地方转移到另一个地方，而是真正有机会在其自然栖息地中生存下来，”他说，并补充道，随着火灾蔓延，能够接收流离失所的红毛猩猩的受保护森林正变得越来越稀少。
“We want to ensure that rescued orangutans are not simply moved from one place to another, but actually have a chance to survive in their natural habitat,” he said, adding that protected forests capable of receiving displaced orangutans are becoming increasingly scarce as fires spread.
受厄尔尼诺现象加剧的持续旱季影响，印度尼西亚今年的森林和土地火灾情况恶化。导致火灾的因素还包括印度尼西亚婆罗洲部分地区和苏门答腊岛部分地区通过焚烧进行的土地清理，以及水资源短缺，这阻碍了印度尼西亚消防员的工作，他们已获得日本的援助。
Forest and land fires in Indonesia have worsened this year as El Niño intensifies a prolonged dry season. Contributing factors also include land clearances using fire in the Indonesian part of Borneo and regions of Sumatra island, as well as water shortages that have hampered Indonesian firefighters, who have received assistance from Japan .
一只名叫桑普尔纳的雄性红毛猩猩，据信年龄约为20岁，于9月初在西加里曼丹省凯塔邦县的一处油棕种植园被居民发现时正挣扎着呼吸，该地区受到山火影响。印尼林业部表示，该红毛猩猩在被救出几小时后死亡。
A male orangutan named Sampurna, believed to be around 20 years old, was found struggling to breathe by residents in early September on a palm oil plantation in West Kalimantan’s Ketapang district, an area affected by wildfires. He died hours after being rescued, Indonesia’s Forestry Ministry said.
截至周六，林业部表示，印度尼西亚婆罗洲部分地区已有超过270只野生动物被救出、康复或被引导至更安全的栖息地，其中包括由YIARI救出的46只红毛猩猩。
As of Saturday, the ministry said, more than 270 wild animals in Indonesia’s part of Borneo had been rescued, rehabilitated or guided to safer habitats, including 46 orangutans rescued by YIARI.
YIARI首席执行官卡尔梅莱·利亚诺·桑切斯表示，这种转移是最后的手段，因为红毛猩猩的原始栖息地已不再安全。
The relocation was a last resort after the orangutans’ original habitat was no longer safe, YIARI CEO Karmele Llano Sanchez said.
她说：“这些红毛猩猩因野火摧毁其栖息地而受到创伤和其他影响，导致它们流离失所。‘救助它们是我们帮助它们生存的最佳方式之一。’”
“These orangutans have been traumatized and other impacts by wildfires that devastated their habitat, leaving them displaced,” she said, “Rescuing them is one of the best ways we can help them survive.”