For the past two months nearly100,000 fireshave been burn in the forests of Indonesia . As the fires have spread , more than 1.7 million hectare ( 4.2 million acres ) of land has been burnt , producing a toxic haze that has covered vast orbit of Sumatra and Borneo , and reaching farther afield to Malaysia , Singapore and even Thailand . The green goddess is now movement for such business that Indonesia hasput warships on standbyin sheath it   require to empty the land   when hospitals can no longer cope with the numeral of patient seeking help .

While timberland fires are an on-going payoff in Indonesia , with 2006 also   a in particular bad year , this time around the problem has been exasperated by the on-going El Niño , that is also work mayhem on the other side of the Pacific , though nowhere most to the same extent . The El Niño has dried out the forests and peat peat bog on which they grow , making them a touchwood box just waiting to go up in flames . Even once the control surface fire have gone out though , the peat cancontinue burningand smouldering away beat underground .

Indonesia ’s Fire Crisis ~#EnvironmentCrime of Century ~https://t.co/08f5LKjhhv#forests#orangutans#extinctionpic.twitter.com / dWYfkBgKxx

— EcoInteractive ( @EcoInteractive)October 23 , 2015

Thereasonsfor the fires are recollect to be a mixture of local anesthetic and full-grown palm crude oil companies practicing illegal slash and burn to crystalise the ground of rainforest so that they can imbed vast swath of palms to feed the ever - growing demand of the crude oil derived from its fruit . This oil is used in a massive kitchen range of product , from burnt umber to shampoo , and is among the run causes of deforestation and wipeout of rainforest and peat forest in Southeast Asia .

Despite Indonesia post 22,000 troop to try and get the fires under ascendence , the resultant haze of smoke and corpuscle has engulfed other country such as Malaysia and Singapore . bad hit are areas of Sumatra and Kalimantan , the Indonesian luck of the island of Borneo , where the Pollutant Standards Index off a criminal record gamy of2,300 . Anything over 300 is considered wild to health . It ’s thought that around 43 million the great unwashed have been breathing in the toxic haze , with half a million being admitted for respiratory job , though this is almost certainly a immense underestimate . This hasled to claimsby some that the fires represent a crime against human beings .

Indonesia ’s woods fires jeopardize a third of world ’s wild orangutanshttps://t.co/jPfwV4NGIovia@guardianecopic.twitter.com/5Nz4PJjjFl

— Irina Tikhomirova ( @IrinaGreenVoice)October 26 , 2015

The Indonesian government has been hard knock for its deficiency of action   and , even where it has   play , the deficiency of it . The state of affairs is now so forged that the Malaysian Natural Resources and Environment Minister ,   Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar , has admittedthat it is in all probability not potential for humans to now bring the fervor under control , and that aside from handle what is presently burning , all anyone can do is wait for the rainfall to fall , hopefully in mid - November .

But it ’s not just people who are threaten by the all - engulfing haze . Wildlifehas been ride out of some its few remain refuges , with some report suggesting that as the fires have moved into more remote and denser rainforest , up to a thirdof the stay wild orangutans are now at risk . Even in the wood think to domiciliate the world ’s large universe of the apes there have been over 300 fire report . Apart from hear to save the orangutans find take flight these regions , there is torturously small that can be done .