By Andre Ronaldo, GPOCP Botanist For the past year we have been conducting a survey to estimate the population of wild orangutans in Gunung Palung National Park. In order to estimate the orangutan population, we can count the number of nests in trees along transects throughout the park. Because orangutans sleep in a nest each night, and […]
By Muhammad Syainullah, Field Laboratory Assistant I first went to Cabang Panti Research Station in April 2017. I had been a conservation volunteer at the Yayasan Palung (GPOCP) office through the youth group Relawan Konservasi Taruna Penjaga Alam (RK-TAJAM) for almost three years. During this time I campaigned to save orangutans and the forest, even though […]
By Ella Brown, Research Manager I have been the Research Manager for the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project since April 2019. Sadly, I am not in the field anymore, but continuing to help the project as much as I can from my home in America. I have managed a variety of data collection methods for the […]
By Cheryl D Knott, PhD, Executive Director, Professor, Boston University As the human world struggles with the global COVID-19 pandemic, we perhaps can learn something from orangutans. Unlike most primates, who are known for their high sociality and group living behavior, orangutans spend the majority of their time alone. What can these semi-solitary apes teach us […]
By Andre Ronaldo, GPOCP Botanist and Survey Coordinator, with forward by Cheryl Knott, GPOCP Executive Director The Cabang Panti Study Site, within Gunung Palung National Park, is situated to give access to no less than 8 different rainforest habitat types. This unparalleled habitat diversity means that orangutans here have potential access to a huge diversity of […]
By Tori Bakley, GPOCP Research Assistant As a research assistant for GPOCP, 2019 was a full-immersion into research, conservation, and cultural exploration. I did not visit any of my family or friends during my year with the project, but I did spend every day with incredible new friends in an incredible new place that quickly […]
