EARTH DAY 2024: PLANET VS PLASTICS
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day to honour the planet that is home to us all.
After a 6-day expedition to locate previously-released orangutans, we finally managed to find one which we had not detected for quite some time: we found Juminten not far from Camp Lesik.
It was a relief to see Juminten in very good condition. We immediately followed her, and observed her happily eating forest fruits and young shoots.
Moments later, we spotted another orangutan moving around. It turned out to be Lesan, who followed Juminten everywhere she went.
In Search of the Orangutans (2) (Photo credit: Guswan)
In Search of the Orangutans (2) (Photo credit: Deny)
In Search of the Orangutans (2) (Photo credit: Guswan)
Juminten repeatedly coerced Lesan into copulating, and they finally built nests in the same tree.
We are glad to see Juminten living happily in the Kehje Sewen forest. She was a pretty impressive sight in her natural habitat. While we have yet to locate Inge, Abbie and Leo, we are fairly certain that they, too, are living happily there.
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day to honour the planet that is home to us all.
It was a usual day at the Nyaru Menteng forest school, where young orangutans were learning from one another while their human surrogate mothers looked on from below.
Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team at Camp Himba Pambelum in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR), Central Kalimantan, encountered Suci, a young female orangutan, three times back in 2023.
