EARTH DAY 2024: PLANET VS PLASTICS
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day to honour the planet that is home to us all.
This week we encountered four released orangutans in Kehje Sewen. They are Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona. How happy we feel for having the opportunity of bumping into memorable glances.
Casey, Lesan, and Hamzah were sitting around on an open area near Camp Lesik. It was getting dark and we were just back from our daily monitoring trip at Gunung Belah transect. These three orangutans looked so close to each other and did not seem to be entirely bothered by us coming back to the camp.
They gave us a deep glance.
A couple days later, we went to monitor the area of Lembu transect. As usual we started our activities early, and set out to Lembu transect for daily monitoring. We reached the transect at exactly 2 PM and we built a flying camp there. That was when we heard rustles above our heads.
It turned out to be Mona. She was observing us high above a tree. She gave us a deep glance.
The Look of Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona (Photo credit: Awal)
The Look of Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona (Photo credit: Awal)
The Look of Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona (Photo credit: Luy)
When the sun started to set in, Mona slowly moves away from the flying camp and went deeper into the forest.
Until today, Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona are in a very good health condition and we all feel very pleased to be able to observe them in their habitat.
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day to honour the planet that is home to us all.
It was a usual day at the Nyaru Menteng forest school, where young orangutans were learning from one another while their human surrogate mothers looked on from below.
Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team at Camp Himba Pambelum in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR), Central Kalimantan, encountered Suci, a young female orangutan, three times back in 2023.
