Archive | December, 2009
Attack in Borneo! Mobile Guard Post Burned!
On November 19,2009 around one in the afternoon, a group of 63 Indonesian police officers with two dump trucks supported by Park rangers and Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) rangers moved into an illegal dry ground strip mining area inside the very northern edge of Tanjung Puting National Park and began arresting illegal [...]
Continue reading...5. December 2009
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Video Interview: Found on Youtube
Somebody brought this video to my attention. It was filmed when I spoke at Cincinnati Zoo sometime in the spring of this year. It’s not bad. The interviewer was very sympathetic to animals and conservation. We need more like her. She was charming and articulate. She also gave me a Curious George stuffed toy to [...]
Continue reading...4. December 2009
Orangutan Twins – Thor doing fine so far!
Tut’s twins were born on October 15, 2009 at Camp Leakey, our facility supported and managed by Orangutan Foundation International, but Tranquillity, the weaker twin of the two, soon died. We named Thor, the stonger twin who survived, for the day of the week that he was born, Thursday. Since both twins [...]
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Scientist, conservationist, educator: for almost four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat, and is today the world’s foremost authority on the orangutan.Latest Flickr photos
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9. December 2009
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