The orangutans at OFI’s Playpen Facility are about to finish their banana breakfast when I arrive around 8:30 in the morning. Today, I’m spending my day at this facility within OFI’s Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine to meet the orangutans and their caregivers, and to experience what it’s like to work here. For the caregivers, the day starts before 8:00 am when they begin feeding the orangutans breakfast. Now that the orangutans are busy eating, [...]

  Visitor's Corner   Facility, Playpen, Quarantine, by Rowan Klaassen.

It’s 5pm when my telephone beeps and a message tells me that I’m leaving for Camp Leakey in 10 minutes. One and a half hours later a car stops in front of my house and picks me up. Welcome to Indonesian “rubber-time.” Not that it bothers me much, because tonight I am joining Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas in Camp Leakey. Here she will say goodbye to a volunteer group which has been renovating the camp [...]

  Visitor's Corner   Camp Leakey, Volunteer, by Rowan Klaassen.