Scientific Research • Community-Based Conservation
Scientific research plays a critical role in the conservation of Gunung Palung’s orangutans because it is essential to monitor the population’s size, health, and habitat use.
Read more »To ensure the long-term protection of the endangered orangutan and the species' rainforest habitat, GPOCP employs a multi-faceted, community-based conservation strategy.
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Read more »By Cassie Freund, Program Director One of the ongoing questions for the GP conservation team lies in how to best evaluate and measure our impact on orangutan conservation. Sometimes the effects of our activities, like wildlife crime investigations, are tangible and can be seen almost instantaneously, but our environmental education and conservation awareness programs present […]
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 Petrus Kanisius, GPOCP Environmental Education Officer Earlier this month, on November 15th, we held our annual Orangutan Caring Week celebration. This year was a first in that we were in Sandai, a district that directly borders the eastern side of Gunung Palung National Park. Because the trip to Sandai requires a long, five-hour car […]
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 […]
