AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER WITH SVENJA
Our PRM team in the Hiran watershed of TNBBBR conducts phenology surveys and unexpectedly encountered Svenja.
On Monday 19 November 2012, Lone Drøscher Nielsen was presented with a certificate of appreciation at the Office of the Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHKA), the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia.
This award was given by the Government of Indonesia to recognize more than 10 years that Lone Drøscher Nielsen has devoted to helping with the conservation of the Borneo orangutan through the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS Foundation) at Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan. The orangutan is one of the animals protected by the Indonesian Government.
The awards ceremony was conducted by the Director General of PHKA, Ir. Darori MM. Also present were the Director of Conservation and Biodiversity from the Ministry of Forestry, Bambang Novianto; patron of the BOS Foundation, Djamaludin Suryohadikusumo; CEO of the BOS Foundation, Jamartin Sihite; Senior Advisor of the BOS Foundation, Jacqui Sunderland-Grooves; and Aldrianto Priadjati, Program Manager of Orangutan Habitat Rehabilitation at the BOS Foundation.
Lone Drøscher Nielsen, who was born in Aalborg, Denmark, has loved orangutans since she was young. In 1996, Lone left her home country to live in Indonesia in order to actively help with the saving and conservation of the orangutan in Kalimantan.
In the beginning of 2000, Lone helped the BOS Foundation to establish the Centre of Orangutan Rehabilitation at Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan, and headed the program there for many years. Under her leadership, Nyaru Menteng has become the largest orangutan rehabilitation centre in the world by managing more than 600 orangutans. Lone has also actively spoken about problems of the orangutan at many events overseas and has persevered in the struggle to obtain funding for the orangutans welfare.