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		<title>Orangutan of the Month: Mighty Montana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in Borneo is a temporary home to hundreds of young orphaned orangutans building up the skills and confidence they need to be released back into the wild. But the OCCQ is home to a small handful of fully-grown adult male orangutans as well. One of these big guys is Montana, a strikingly benevolent and quick-witted orangutan with a painful past and a complicated future. Adult male orangutans are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7440</link>
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		<title>Return to Childhood Wonder:  A volunteer’s first trip to Camp Leakey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in the second grade when I learned that all of our fellow great apes were endangered, and I could still point out the shelf in my elementary school library where I pored over books about orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. I remember seeing photos and watching nature films about Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas and her famous research station, Camp Leakey, established deep in the tropical forest of Borneo in 1971. As a child [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7442</link>
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		<title>A Second Chance at a Wild Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A tangible sense of excitement sets in at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in the days leading up to orangutans being permanently released back into the wild. OCCQ staff start cleaning and preparing transport cages, veterinarians do the final medical check-ups on the orangutans slated to be released, and caregivers spend some last tender moments with the orangutans they have watched grow up over the years. Surely the orangutans can sense the buzz [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7405</link>
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		<title>Orangutan of the Month: Satria, transformed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I cannot believe how much Satria has changed in the time that I have known him. His expressive face and hesitant curiosity made him stand out from the start. He was the type of infant that could be described as the “runt of the litter” because of his tiny size. He also seemed very fragile. This combination of fragility and small size always inspired my sympathy. However, in a short time Satria grew immensely, both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7373</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 11, 2012 about one hundred people gathered at an isolated Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) forest camp at the edge of Tanjung Puting National Park in the province of Kalimantan Tengah (Central Indonesian Borneo) to release five wild born ex-captive adolescent male orangutans into the wild. The release occurred under the auspices of the “Friends of Orangutans” program initiated by OFI and P.T. Smart, an Indonesian company concerned with conservation. Crowd Excitement Grows in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7306</link>
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		<title>Orangutan of the Month: quirky Rangda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, Rangda (pronounced “wrong-duh”) is much like the rest of the infant orangutans at OFI’s Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ); he loves climbing trees, playing with his friends, and eating fruit. But within these preferences, Rangda finds little ways to break the norms of behavior. His unique climbing habits and particular affinity for mud are just a few of the ways he makes himself stand out. There is a noticeable contrast between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7272</link>
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		<title>Boncel and Josmik Get a New Enclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) is constantly addressing unforeseen problems, which come with any wildlife conservation efforts. Habitat destruction, poaching, illegal pet trade, wildfires, and corporate exploitation are all problems that take an immense amount of effort to address. When it comes to orangutan rehabilitation, the focus of our work at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in Borneo, there are ‘housekeeping’ challenges that frequently make life hard. We recently faced one such challenge when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7195</link>
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		<title>Orangutan of the Month: Uci</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throwing a huge leaf over her head with a comical flourish, Uci (pronounced ‘oochi’) follows along with the group of adolescent female orangutans making their way across the forest floor. Displaying youthful fearlessness, they tramp through the deep puddles of water formed by last night’s heavy rains. Emerging onto drier ground, Uci loses her leafy hat as she somersaults her way up to a tree and begins the day’s first ascent: just a typical day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7196</link>
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		<title>Up in smoke: facts and frenzy about Borneo forest fires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are standing in the midst of destruction. Felled, charred trees litter the smoldering ground below you. The dead leaves crunch under your feet with each cautious step and the heat presses on your skin and fills your lungs. Fires pop up unexpectedly all around you, and a threatened rainforest is behind you. You are not trained as a fire fighter, but this is your fire to fight. Just a month ago, Orangutan Foundation International [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7087</link>
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		<title>Orangutan of the month: Quick Silver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daily trips into the rehabilitation forest are a gentle introduction to the wild for the young orphaned orangutans being raised at OFI’s Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ), established by Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas in 1998. The youngsters initially play on a human-made jungle gym in the forest  but soon wander into the area of thick but relatively short trees directly around it, constantly within sight of the caregivers on whom they still depend. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orangutan.org/archives/7081</link>
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