| These pages contain photographs taken in the Tanjung Puting National Park and at the Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) care-giving facilities in Central Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan Tengah), in the years 1987-2009. |
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In the early years, much of my photography in the Tanjung Puting National Park took place at Camp Leakey and the forest that surrounds it - the Camp Leakey Study Area - a safe haven for both wild and rehabilitated ex-captive orangutans, and their offspring. It was at Camp Leakey that Dr. Biruté M. F. Galdikas, in 1971, commenced her still continuing endeavors to study the orangutans, and to protect them and the forests in which they live, endeavors in which I have been privileged to assist in a small way. In the later years, the locations of my image gathering included several other facilities in Central Indonesian Borneo, places where well over two hundred orphaned orangutans were - and still are - being nurtured by OFI care-givers. In the distant past, orangutans ranged over much of southeast Asia from Java to southern China. Now, they are to be found solely on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Unfortunately, logging and the planting of oil palm trees are destroying their forest habitat in both places, so that they may, in a few years, no longer be seen in the wild. |
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I've set up these pages in the hope that, after you have seen how
close to being human the orangutans are, you will want to help
in the struggle to save their species from extinction by supporting
one, or more, of the organizations that are dedicated to orangutan survival. A good place to start is:
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