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Orangutans rescued from Indonesia wildfires on Borneo

Rank
Running
44h
Updated
38m ago
Momentum
+92%
Outlets
11
Regions
4
Countries
11
Languages
5

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 9 Oct, 05:26 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Čeština (1) · Deutsch (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Svenska (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 44 hours.

5 10 15
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Seznam Zprávy, 8 Oct, 07:45 UTC.
  2. Second country: Malaysia, with Free Malaysia Today.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Free Malaysia Today.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 9 Oct, 13:28 UTC.
  5. Now: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

45 of 45 hours

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The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

27%46%18%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 27%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 5 countries · 46%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 18%

First movers

  1. Seznam Zprávy 8 Oct, 07:45 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today +21h 41m
  3. Arab News +22h 11m
  4. The Japan Times +24h 12m
  5. CNA +25h

Latest arrivals

  1. Aftonbladet 10 Oct, 03:16 UTC
  2. Al Jazeera 9 Oct, 19:14 UTC
  3. Lrytas 9 Oct, 14:27 UTC
  4. Africanews 9 Oct, 13:28 UTC
  5. Euronews 9 Oct, 13:28 UTC

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 11 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 11 outlets, 2 state-owned, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Republic of the Congo. Asia-Pacific 3: Japan, Malaysia, Singapore. Europe 5: Austria, Czechia, France, Lithuania, Sweden. Middle East 2: Qatar, Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, German, English, Lithuanian, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article Seznam Zprávy, 8 Oct 2026, 07:45 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 07:50 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 03:16 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Indonesia. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
2.18, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
9 Oct 2026 104 6.32 10 10 9 9 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 07:50 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 03:16 UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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  • Aftonbladet Sweden 10 Oct, 03:16 UTC
    Orangutanger fast i Indonesiens skogsbränder
  • Al Jazeera Qatar 9 Oct, 19:14 UTC
    Injured Orangutan rescued from Indonesia wildfires
  • Lrytas Lithuania 9 Oct, 14:27 UTC
    Per gaisrus Indonezijoje išgelbėta nuo liepsnų bėgusi orangutanė
  • Africanews Republic of the Congo 9 Oct, 13:28 UTC
    Indonesia: Baby orangutan saved from Borneo wildfires as habitat destruction escalates
  • Euronews France 9 Oct, 13:28 UTC
    Indonesia: Baby orangutan saved from Borneo wildfires as habitat destruction escalates
  • Kurier Austria 9 Oct, 11:29 UTC
    Brände in Indonesien: Orang-Utans in dramatischer Aktion gerettet
  • CNA Singapore 9 Oct, 08:45 UTC
    Walking through flames: Orangutans rescued in Indonesia fires
  • The Japan Times Japan 9 Oct, 07:57 UTC
    Walking through flames: Orangutan rescued in Indonesia fires
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 9 Oct, 05:56 UTC
    Walking through flames: orangutan rescued in Indonesia fires
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 9 Oct, 05:26 UTC
    Indonesia races to rescue orangutans from fires
  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia 8 Oct, 07:45 UTC
    Obrazem: Požáry trápí orangutany, lidé je museli evakuovat
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