The Lamandau Nature Preserve, consisting of two former orangutan-free logging
concessions, is a 293-square-mile wildlife sanctuary established by the Indonesian government in 1998 after intensive
lobbying by Dr. Galdikas for a place to send ex-captive orangutans ready
for a life in the wild, in order to avoid releasing them into the Tanjung Puting
National Park, where they would compete for food with the orangutans
already there and, possibly, expose them to new diseases. Late in 1999,
the first group of rehabilitants was moved into the Preserve from the Orangutan Care Center
& Quarantine. As of October of 2004, there
were about 75 of them at
Lamandau.
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Here are a few of the rehabilitants
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GORZITZE
1997 |
2004 |
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LEO
1997 |
1997 |
2004 |
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DONO
2000 |
2004 |
KIKI 2
1999 |
2004 |
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MOCHTAR
1994 |
1996 |
2000 |
2004 |
RUDI
1996 |
2004 |
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OKUDA
1996 |
2002 |
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MAYA
2002 |
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PAULA
1998 |
JEFFREY
1995 |
1997 |
1999 |
2000 |
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RUTA
1999 |
2004 |
PERTH
1996 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
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BOBBI
1996 |
2002 |
w/BIMA
2005 |
HENI
1996 |
1998 |
2000 |
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ROBBI
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
SOMALIA
1994 |
1994 |
1994 |
1996 |
1996 |
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