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| About the Orangutan Foundation |
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| The Orangutan
Foundation (www.orangutan.org.uk)is the world’s foremost
Orangutan conservation organization. It protects Asia’s
endangered great apes by preserving their tropical forest habitat,
working with local communities and promoting research and education. |
Photo courtesy of
the Orangutan Foundation |
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are a small organization operating a diverse range of programmes
that reflect the challenges involved with successfully conserving
a highly threatened species and ecosystem. At the heart of their
conservation strategy is the involvement of local communities
who live close to areas of orangutan habitat. They have come
to learn that through education, awareness and inclusion, their
projects have greater success and sustainability. |
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| The Foundation is conserving
critical Orangutan habitats in the following areas: Belantikan
Hulu Region—home to an estimated 6,000 orangutans, working
with Yayorin, a local Indonesian N.G.O an Fauna and Flora International;
Tanjung Putting National Park— home to more than 4,000
orangutans, one of the largest remaining populations in Borneo, working
with the Park Authority against illegal activities such as logging,
mining and the expansion of oil palm plantations; Lamandau Ecosystem
Canservatin Partnership— formed in 2007 to promote the conservation
and sustainable management of lowland forests of south central Kalimantan;
Lamandau Wildlife Reserve—the release site for orangutans
that have been rehabilitated at the Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine
(OCCQ); Sebangu National Park—home to the largest orangutan population
on Borneo, working with the Centre for International Cooperation in
Management of Tropical Peatland (CIMTROP) to protect the globally
important peat swamp from fire. The Foundation is also the UK representative
of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Project (SOCP). |
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| They support research in
the Pondok Ambung Tropical Rainforest Research Station in Tanjung
Putting National Park. This has been operated by the Foundation
since 2005. Research has been carried out on; crocodiles, entomology,
bats, frogs and gibbons. They also support and encourage Indonesian
and International research students and award two annual research
grants. |
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| Photo courtesy of Ian Redmond |
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| The foundation also supports
Yayorins (www.yayorin.org)
education and awareness programme which aims to educate the local
communities about the rainforests, their habitats, sustainable farming
and their own responsibility to their local environment through visits
to local schools, companies, plantations, villages and government
institutions, also through information distribution throughout the
year. They also have Kampung Konservasi (Conservation Village)
which is an integrated Environmental Learning Area for the local community
that offers education activities, sustainable agriculture and a fish
farming programme. |
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| In the UK they have provided
a downloadable education pack (see link on the left) so that school
children in this country can be taught about Orangutans and the importance
of the rainforest now, before it is too late. |
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| For up to date information
on the work that the Foundation and their colleagues are doing please
visit their blog at Wildlife
Direct , or click on the logo below: |
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| To
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Orangutan Foundation
Web: www.orangutan.org.uk
Phone:0207 7242912
Fax: 0207 7062613
Email: kristina@orangutan.org.uk |
Inside2outside
Ltd
Phone: 01480 498297
Fax: 01480 498303
Email: vanessa.reed@pocca.co.uk |
Infant in basket
Photo courtesy of Mel Tolley |
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