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.
Remember our story about Upi staring at something perching up high in a Meranti tree near Camp Lesik? At the time we had assumed that she was only looking around the camp area. It turns out that she was on to something much more interesting!
As we observed her, she sat unmoving on top of the Meranti tree for hours. However, as soon as we left the camp for other work Upi jumped into a nearby kedondong tree. Kedondong is the vernacular name for Spondias dulcis which is a tropical vegetation with an edible fruit. The tree can grow up to 15-18 m tall. In Indonesia, the fruit is commonly used as ingredients of rujak, a form of fruit salad.
She was aiming for the large abundance of fully ripe kedondong fruit and Upi was quick to spot them and make a great meal of the fruits in season.
Upi Loves Kedondong Fruit (Photo credit: Deny)
Upi Loves Kedondong Fruit (Photo credit: Deny)
Upi Loves Kedondong Fruit (Photo credit: Deny)
The next day, Upi went back to the tree and took Hamzah with her to enjoy a kedondong fruit feeding frenzy.
Happy eating Upi and Hamzah!
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.
