{"id":894130,"date":"2026-09-16T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894130\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:34:14","slug":"sumatran-elephants-run-out-of-room-as-fires-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894130\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumatran elephants run out of room as fires spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">JAKARTA \u2013 A surge in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/se-asia\/wildfires-continue-to-rage-across-indonesia-139-arrested-for-arson?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">wildfires across Sumatra<\/a> is putting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/se-asia\/16-arrested-in-indonesias-riau-over-alleged-killings-of-critically-endangered-sumatran-elephants?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">critically endangered Sumatran elephants<\/a> at greater risk of extinction, with hundreds of thousands of hectares of their habitat now affected by fires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A new report by environmental group Geopix found that about 382,778ha of elephant habitat was affected by fires throughout August. Further fires affected 147,550ha between Sept 1 and 8 across 21 population pockets on the island, which accounted for around 7.06 per cent of the total elephant habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKARTA \u2013 A surge in wildfires across Sumatra is putting critically endangered Sumatran elephants at greater risk of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-894130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}