By Mariamah Achmad, GPOCP Environmental Education Manager December was the first month of a new capacity-building initiative for GPOCP. Each staff on the conservation team will now have the opportunity to spend one week at Cabang Panti Research Station, so that we can learn more about orangutans, the forest, and the research project. This will […]
By Katherine Lauck, Research Assistant The research that I am helping with at Cabang Panti, for Ph.D. student Andrea DiGiorgio’s dissertation, seeks to better understand the diet of the Bornean orangutan. Andrea is a student of Dr. Cheryl Knott’s in the Anthropology Department at Boston University. Nutritional analysis has been a part of Dr. Knott’s […]
By GPOCP Researchers Over the past 23 years, GPOCP researchers have spent over 70,000 hours studying wild orangutans. No two follows are ever the same, which makes for many exciting moments. In honor of Orangutan Caring Week this year, the current research team wrote up their favorite follow moments to be shared on our Facebook […]
By Amy Scott, Boston University Ph.D. Student The trek to Gunung Palung entails a 13 km hike after a bumpy 1.5 hour bus ride, but my trip to the forest started long before that. I began preparing for the field long before I left the US, before island-hopping in Indonesia to collect permits and getting […]
By Cassie Freund, Program Director “This is large-scale burning atop huge carbon stores that should not have ever happened.” – Robert Field, Columbia University/NASA Those of us keeping up with the news on the Indonesian forest fires have been inundated with information lately. And those of you who haven”t heard much news shouldn”t feel guilty […]
By Becki Ingram (former research assistant) and Toto (Cabang Panti field assistant) The day began like any other. As with most orangutan research, our days at Cabang Panti start early and end late, sometimes with little variation and often involving long stretches without anything particularly unusual happening. But some days are indeed more exciting than […]
