Tanjung Puting orangutan holiday in Borneo

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We are completely dedicated through tourism, to protect the local environment and raise awareness of the conservation challenges facing a particular area. In Borneo, we support local projects such as the reforestation area at Pesalat and the Care Centre in Kumai as well as the research center at Camp Leakey all protecting the environment and that wildlife that has already suffered from deforestation. Part of your expedition fee goes toward an adoption of an Orangutan and toward Safeguard, a local ranger operation that helps prevent deforestation and pouching of wildlife.

Guidelines such as :
As you trek through the forests or visit Camp Leakey it is important to remember that you are entering the habitat of one of the rarest great ape species on Earth. The population of Bornean orangutans can generate from two different origins

1. Ex-captive individuals who have been rehabilitated and released in the forest. Captive and rehabilitation experiences often result in released rehabilitant orangutans not fearing humans and even expecting to interact with them.

2. Wild individuals, some of whom have become habituated to human presence, with the remaining being naïve (i.e. not used to people’s presence in their forest habitat).

Inappropriate behaviour by visitors may affect the behaviour and health of orangutans from both populations negatively, which places them at increased risk of becoming stressed, or the transfer of diseases. We will furnish you with appropriate guidelines so that you are able to see the orangutans at all locations in a way which is both safe for themselves and safe for the orangutans, whilst at the same time, experiencing a more natural, unique experience in the forest.