You may have already met adult female Unyuk, and her infant Ursula. They briefly feature in the recent film Born to be Wild IMAX 3D which was partially filmed at Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Borneo. A historic but still active research and conservation site, Camp Leakey is where Dr Biruté Mary Galdikas and OFI (Orangutan Foundation International) rangers have been conducting wild orangutan research for the last forty years. In fact, Unyuk [...]

  Orangutan of the Month   Camp Leakey, Orangutan, Unyuk, by Tess Joyce.

In the new IMAX movie, Born to be Wild, Siswi is filmed sharing noodles with Dr Biruté Mary Galdikas as they sit together outside Galdikas’ house in Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Borneo. Siswi is also captured walking on the causeway from the river, and wrestling playfully with Dr Galdikas. Camp Leakey is the historic research and conservation camp which Dr. Galdikas established in 1971 and where she began her research about [...]

  Camp Leakey   Born to be wild 3d, Camp Leakey, IMAX, Siswi, by Tess Joyce.

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.