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Fires scorch 6,000 hectares of land, forests in Riau

Six thousand hectares of land and forests were destroyed by fire in Riau province, according to a disaster mitigation ...

Four tigers wander around as their habitat catches fire

Four Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) were wandering in the area where fire brigade personnel were ...

Haze from Riau will not disperse to Singapore and Malaysia

The haze from the Riau Province in Sumatra will not disperse to Singapore and Malaysia, although a total of 1,234 ...

Bangladeshi illegal immigrants arrested in Riau

Riau police arrested Eight Bangladeshi nationals, alleged to be illegal immigrants, in Bengkalis district, according ...

Riau bush fire`s hot spot multiplied 150 times

Bush fire hot spots in Riau have multiplied 150 times, from 64 on Sunday (Feb. 23) to 1,234 on Monday, across eight ...

Visibility only 50 meters in Riau due to haze

The worsening forest fires in some areas of Riau Province has reduced the visibility to about only 50 meters, an ...

46 elephants found dead in riau in three years : WWF

A total of 46 elephants were found dead in Riau province between 2011 and 2014, with most of them without ivory, ...

10 people named as suspects in Riau`s forested land fires

The Environment Ministry has named 10 people charged with setting fire to forested land in Riau Province last year. ...

Bones of seven elephants found in Riau`s industrial forest

The bones of seven elephants were recently found in an industrial forest in Pelalawan district, Riau province, ...

US offers training for forest rangers in Indonesia

The United States plans to offer training for forest rangers in Indonesia to enable them to tackle incidents such as ...

Four districts declare emergency status due to haze

Four districts in the Riau Province have declared a state of emergency due to the haze arising from forest, plantation ...

Dumai`s air quality on Wednesday morning hazardous to health

The Pollutant Standard Index (PSI) over Dumai city, Riau province, reached 410, on Wednesday at around 8 a.m. local ...

Number of hotspots in Riau double

The number of hotspots of forest, plantation and peatland fires in Riau Province on Wednesday morning was 256, double ...

Satellite detects 81 hotspots in Riau

The Terra and Aqua satellite detected 81 hotspots of forest, plantation and peat land fires in Riau Province on Monday ...

528 hotspots of forest fires detected in Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellite detected a total of 528 hotspots of forest, plantation, and peatland fires across Sumatra ...