In 1971, the Canadian ethologist and conservationist Biruté Galdikas began the Orangutan Research and Conservation Project (ORCP) in Tanjung Puting National Park (originally Tanjung Puting Reserve) on the Indonesian island of Borneo. In addition to her research, she established a network of local staff and volunteers to advance the conservation of orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) populations and their rain forest habitat. In 1986, the project became the Orangutan Foundation International, an organization dedicated to research, education, conservation, and forest protection in an effort to ensure the survival of biologically viable orangutan populations in the wild.
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Further Readings:
- Galdikas, Biruté Marija Filomena, and Karl Ammann. Great Ape Odyssey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
- Galdikas, Biruté Marija Filomena. Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1995.
- Morell, Virginia. Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
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