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.
These are a few of the rehabilitants:
GORZITZE
1997
2004
LEO
1997
1997
2004
DONO
2000
2004
KIKI 2
1999
2004
MOCHTAR
1994
1996
2000
2004
RUDI
1996
2004
OKUDA
1996
2002
MAYA
2002
PAULA
1998
JEFFREY
1995
1997
1999
2000
RUTA
1999
2004
PERTH
1996
1998
1999
2000
BOBBI
1996
2002
w/BIMA
2005
HENI
1996
1998
2000
ROBBI
1996
1997
1998
1999
SOMALIA
1994
1994
1994
1996
1996
1997
1997
1997
1998
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