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 at Tanjung Puting Park Central Kalimantan Indonesia.. There
are now three orangutan rehabilitation locations,
Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui, and Camp Leakey located at Tanjung
Puting National park.
Camp Leakey is the location for semi-wild and wild orangutans
in
the middle of the prime Rain Forest of Indonesian Borneo Island called
"Kalimantan". Arround Camp Leakey center, Jungle tours for
spotting
orangutans and wildlife,
as probiscis Longnose monkeys, birds and other animals during the
safari cruise
up the Sekonyer river in to Tanjung Puting Reserve.
Borneo
's Tanjung Puting National Park is the land of the Orangutan
and
Rainforest. Kalimanantan 's Flora and Fauna is the
oldest ecological wealth at earth,
from coast featured mangroves swamps, and low-land rain forest, to
dense highland 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.
