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News Archive for 2010 March

Visit by Miss Indonesia 2008

March 19th, 2010 by Dr. Birutė Mary Galdikas.

Zivanna (Zizi) Letisha Siregar, Miss Indonesia 2008 (for the Miss Universe pageant), recently visited the Orangutan Foundation International’s Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine in Pasir Panjang as well as Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park as part of a well-orchestrated trip to publicize the plight of wild orangutan populations and their habitat, tropical rain forest, in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

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Newborn Orangutan Taken from Mother by Another Female!

March 2nd, 2010 by Dr. Birutė Mary Galdikas.

Orangutans continue to surprise us! At OFI’s Seruyan forest release site, after first-time mother “Dewi” gave birth to a tiny female infant, another young pregnant female named “Pinkie” took the infant, “Dalia”, from Dewi after Dalia had been squealing for almost half an hour. The camp assistants finally succeeded in calling Dr. Galdikas who arrived after an arduous four hour trip to the isolated release camp. Dalia was retrieved from Pinkie but suddenly at least [...]

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