Orangutans of the Care Center & Quarantine

The Care Center,  located outside the national park,  in the village of  Pasir Panjang, several  hours away from  Camp Leakey,   is operated by  OFI  and  provides tender loving care, including medical attention, to hundreds of young orangutans who have been  forcibly  separated   from their  mothers,  mothers who had been killed during logging operations,  or by men hunting for bushmeat or for infants for the pet trade. But  because  private ownership  of an orangutan   is illegal,  most of the orangutans being held at the Care Center had been confiscated and sent there for rehabilitation. Hopefully,  someday,  they will be able to  return to the wild - if sufficient orangutan habitat remains when they are ready to go back. Here are images of a small number of the many hundeds of orphans that are now in, or have passed through, the facilities of OFI.   Some of these orphans,  having spent years there, and having reached a suitable age,  have already been released into a forest not now inhabited by wild orangutans - The Lamandau Nature Preserve. ALDA 2002 AMANG 1998 AMIN 1998 AMOI 1998 ARLO 1995 ASPEN 1995 ASTRA 1996 BALI,  AMOI, and HUGH 1998 BANDIT 1996 BAUNG 2002 BEJO 1998 BETTY 1999 BOTAK 1997 BUNCIT 2002 CAROLINE 2002 ENDANG 1996 EWET 2000 HUGH 1999 JIDAN 2002 JIMMY 1999 JOE 2002 JUNICHI 1996 JUSTIN 2000 KIKI 1 1999 KIKI 2 1999 KIMBA 1999 MEGAWATI 1999 MICKEY 1997 MONTANA 1998 NOFI 2000 OJEK 1999 PUJI 1999 SANTI 2002 SAPTI 1998 SAWIT 1999 SCHWARZI 1998 SITI 1998 SONYA 2000 TANJUNG 1999 TIFFANY 1997 TORSIDO 1996 TRISTA 2002 UCIL 1999 UMIT 2000 UNTUNG 1997 WINGKY 1998 WIWIN 1998 WOOKIE 2000 YUDA 1997 To view any image larger, select it, or see slide show for all. Please add your comments to my guestbook Sign Guestbook      View Guestbook Guestbook Archive Home,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  Next,  12,  13 Video Clips

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