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Supporting Conservation and Understanding of Orangutans. Camp Leakey – Orangutan Foundation International. Located in the Tanjung Puting Reserve (now National Park) in Central Borneo, Camp Leakey was established in 1971 by Dr. Biruté Galdikas and former spouse Rod Brindamour.
Projects have ranged from orangutan, proboscis monkey, gibbon and leaf-eating monkey behaviour and ecology, to studies of orangutan sign language abilities and cognition, to leech behaviour, and river system ecology. As an active research facility, Camp Leakey welcomes day visitors with local guides.
6 Απρ 2016 · Camp Leakey has not only served as a research station for ground-breaking orangutan research, but also as a home to Dr. Galdikas and her family and the many wild and ex-captive orangutans who call the forest surrounding Camp Leakey home.
This research program began in 1971 when Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas and her former husband, Rod Brindamour, first established Camp Leakey. Dr. Galdikas’s primary mission was to study the behavior and ecology of wild orangutans.
In honor of Leakey, Galdikas' named the base camp Camp Leakey. The first work of the ORCP was taking orangutans that were being kept as pets from government officials and others. The formation of the ORCP gave Galdikas the opportunity to conduct 100,000 hours of observation of orangutans. [ 1 ]
Established by Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas and associates in 1986, OFI operates Camp Leakey, an orangutan research centre within Tanjung Puting National Park, and runs the Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine facility in the Dayak village of Pasir Panjang, near Pangkalan Bun, which is home to over 330 displaced orangutans.
Darkness is fast approaching at Camp Leakey, the outpost in a Borneo forest that Biruté Mary Galdikas created almost 40 years ago to study orangutans.
