El Nino’s arrival has brought on severe drought to the region. During these long droughts, the forests of Borneo are much more vulnerable to fires. The land cleared for palm oil plantations and by farmers goes up in flames easily due to the dried and dead brush on the floor of the forest. What is OFI doing? Our office in Pangkalan Bun uses a GIS, which is a Geographic Information System, to locate hotspots in [...]

  Indonesia   Fires, by Dr. Birutė Mary Galdikas.