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Borneo Orangutans
Do you want to go and see orangutans in Borneo or help with their conservation? Well, here's your chance!
There's a volunteer programme in the Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Participate living "in the field" in conservation fieldwork to make a difference to these wonderful animals; and you'll see orangutans in their natural habitat. |
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There's a volunteer programme in the Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Participate living "in the field" in conservation fieldwork to make a difference to these wonderful animals; and you'll see orangutans in their natural habitat.
Volunteers work in & around the Lamandau Wildlife reserve, a Government designated orangutan release area. Past projects included the construction of a jetty, guard posts and a soft release site to enable release of further rehabilitated orangutans into the wild.
The volunteering projects are largely manual construction tasks - but you don't need any experience, as everyone learns on the job. All volunteer work actively contributes to the protection of orangutans reintroduced from the Care Centre and Quarantine Facility, plus existing wild populations.
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All programmes are six weeks in length with 2 people in a team. The programme is open to all nationalities. You'll work with local staff, so get some amazing insight into the Indonesian culture & an opportunity to learn some of the local lingo.
Volunteers are taken on visits to the Care Centre & Quarantine, as well as sites of habitat destruction, so you'll really come away with a basic knowledge of orangutan & forest conservation.
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Can't get to Borneo? You can still help...
- Adopt an orangutan for yourself (it could be a birthday present from someone who just doesn't know what to get you) or a friend
- Reduce your use of palm oil, so cutting down on the demand for it worldwide
- Sponsor an acre or more or less of the Indonesia rainforest
- Tell a friend about this page & these volunteering opportunities - even if you can't go, maybe they can
- Buy palm oil free products e.g. the Skinny Dipper soap & shower gel products from the RSPB. Why not give it as a gift to a friend? You can help conservation twice over, first by buying products which don't have palm oil & then by buying from the RSPB which is working to help save rainforests in Indonesia.
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