Friday, May 20, 2011

Camp Leakey Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre


Camp Leakey Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre was founded in 1971 as the first place in Indonesia to become a rehabilitation centre for orangutans. There are now three orangutan rehabilitation locations, Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui, and Camp Leakey. Camp Leakey at Tanjung Puting National Park at Central Kalimantan Indonesia Borneo Island is the location for semi-wild and wild orangutans in the middle of the prime Rain Forest. Jungle tours for spotting orangutans and wildlife, as Long Nose monkeys, birds and other animals during the safari cruise up the Sekonyer river in to Tanjung Puting.

Borneo Tanjung Puting National Park is the land of the Orangutan and Rainforest. Kalimanantan 's Flora and Fauna is an ecological wealth, from coast featured mangroves swamps, and low-land rain forest, to dense jungle.
Towering dipterocarpus trees, valuable ebony and iron wood trees are scattered throughout. The wild life is exotic, orangutan, only found at Sumatra and Borneo, along with the endemic proboscis monkeys, and other forest denizens including clouded leopard, leaf monkey, macaque, pangolin anteater, tiny tarsier, lizards, crocodiles, pythons and more then 600 bird spieces as the most famous Sun Birds, pheasants, Kakatua, and Hornbills. 
 
Culture :  Dayak Ngaju, Javanese, and Banjar mix
Flora & Fauna :  Orang Utan and Rainforest with excotic tropical wild life


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