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Orangutans and Holidays
Some months ago one of our readers asked after an orangutan at the Orangutan Care Centre & Quarantine called Roland. Roland Roland came to us on 28 July 2004. Today, he is a boisterous 23 kg...
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Camp Buluh – Orangutan Release Camp
Camp Buluh is one of six orangutan release camps in the Lamandau Wildlife Reserve. Since September 2006, 13 ex-captive orangutans have been reintroduced at Camp Buluh and three wild orangutans have...
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Zidane – Orangutan Back to the Forest
I am very pleased to be able to tell you that Zidane was re-release at Camp Buluh, in Lamandau Wildlife Reserve, on 19 January. His recovery is down to the excellent care (which included two blood...
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Meet our new vet for the orangutans of Lamandau Wildlife Reserve
Please meet Dr. Fikri, our new vet, for the orangutans in Lamandau Wildlife Reserve. Mr Tigor our Orangutan Reintroduction Programme Manager, is on the left (reluctant to stand still and smile!) and Dr...
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Orangutan Rescued From Oil Palm Plantation
Last Sunday the Orangutan Foundation responded to reports of a young female orangutan isolated in a tree in an oil palm plantation. The young female orangutan climbed the fig tree when we arrived...
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Male Bornean Orangutan Rescued
Orangutan Awareness and Orangutan Freedom On Wednesday 11 November 2009, the rescue team from Section II Natural Resources Conservation Agency of Central Kalimantan and Orangutan Care Center and...
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Hope for another Bornean Orangutan.
The translocation of the young female orangutan (we rescued her last week from an oil palm plantation) to the Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve is planned for this week. The young orangutan was named...
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Orangutan translocated to forest reserve
Finally, last week Memes (the young female orangutan rescued from the oil palm plantation a few weeks ago) was successfully translocated to Camp Gemini, in the Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve, Central...
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Tomorrow sees the start of a 3 day workshop on orangutan rehabilitation and reintroduction at the Bogor Agricultural University, on the island of Java, Indonesia. The workshop will be attended by all...
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Bangkal – a gentle giant
I’d like to share with you a lovely story… In October 2000, I went to Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo to join the Orangutan Foundation Volunteer Programme . Back...
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FIRST IMAGES OF NEWBORN ORANGUTANS IN THE LAMANDAU RIVER WILDLIFE RESERVE,...
Dr Wawan, our vet, has taken some fantastic photos of two female orangutans with their newborn babies, in the Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve, an orangutan release site, in Central Kalimantan,...
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