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Rain in Tanjung Puting
2006 was an Eli Nino year and there was an extensive drought that lasted for several months. Usually, the height of the dry season comes at mid to late August. In 2006 the drought lasted well into November. 15% of the National Park burned. However, some of the fires took place in secondary forests, small [...]
Continue reading...9. 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...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 [...]
Continue reading...22. November 2009
Orangutan Twins at Camp Leakey!
Orangutan twins are a rare occurrence in nature! On October 15,2009 an orangutan female named Tut gave birth to twins at Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Indonesian Borneo. She first appeared on the bridge in the morning carrying her two newborn infants . Since one of the twins seemed weak, the Camp [...]
Continue reading...22. September 2009
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The Fires are Blazing Again in Borneo
The fires are blazing again in Kalimantan! I sit weary and exhausted in front of my computer but not nearly as weary as the OFI (Orangutan Foundation International) assistants who have been fighting these fires for several weeks now since the end of August. We were warned that 2009 would be an El [...]
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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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