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Orangutan Island

Who Rules?

Feb 08, 9:00 pm

Repeats: Feb 09, 12:00 am and Feb 09, 4:00 am

 

Episode guide: Lone's risky plan to encourage the orphaned orangutans to spend

more time in the treetops has a fatal flaw. But she isn't going to be

discouraged and works on a new solution.

 

Sneak peek video here:

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/orangutan-island/video/video.html

Meet Lone:

Lone Dröscher-Nielsen

Project Manager Lone Dröscher Nielsen is the founder and manager of the

Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian

Borneo).

Working with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (B.O.S.), Lone began

this project in 1999, and it is now the largest primate rescue project in the

world, with nearly 600 orangutans in its care. The project not only rescues and

rehabilitates hundreds of orphaned orangutan infants with the goal of a return

to some sort of wild life, but it also rescues hundreds of adult wild orangutans

from palm oil plantations which have been planted after their natural forest

habitat has been cleared.

Lone’s project is the only orangutan project actively rescuing wild

orangutans. These orangutans are treated and healed of wounds inflicted by

loggers and eventually returned to safe forests, which have been secured by

Lone.

Lone began working with orangutans 14 years ago while she worked as a flight

attendant with SAS – the Nordic airline. Originally she volunteered in an

orangutan conservation project, and her interest and skills developed from

there.

In 1993, she moved permanently to Borneo to devote her life to saving

orangutans.

Originally from Denmark, Lone has been featured in a Danish film called The

World’s Most Remarkable Dane. Other films have featured the work of Lone and her

team, most notably National Geographic’s Disenchanted Forest (1999), Animal

Planet’s Growing Up…Orangutan, BBC’s Apes In Danger: Orangutan, and the BBC

series that aired in 2006, Orangutan Diary, which also was featured on Animal

Planet.

Currently Lone is working with NHNZ Ltd. on a new Animal Planet series called

Orangutan Island.

Lone lives in a house near the Nyaru Menteng Rescue Center, and she works

around the clock managing the project. Her duties include training and managing

a work force of approximately 80 local Indonesian Dayaks who work as babysitters

(women caring for the infant orangutans) and Teknisi (men caring for the older

orphans). Lone manages a well-equipped clinic with veterinarians and paramedics

as well as coordinates constant rescues - many of which she attends herself. She

continuously faces the challenge of fundraising for the project, a never-ending

effort with money often depleting. In addition to her already huge workload,

Lone updates sponsors constantly, writes reporters, negotiates huge food

requirements with local suppliers and coordinates with television crews filming

these orangutan stories.

It doesn’t stop when Lone goes home at night either. She currently has at

least a dozen orangutan infants sleeping in her house at night as she is trying

to raise funds for a night nursery for them. Two baby sisters also stay every

night to deal with night feeds and crying infants, but more often than not, Lone

is up in the night nursing a sick or injured baby.

Lone Dröscher Neilson has become an expert on the care of these orphaned

primates, and her methods of raising them and helping them to learn wild skills

are recognized internationally.

 

Adopt one of the orangutans here:

 

http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk/?page_id=294 for the UK or

http://redapes.org/adopt-an-orangutan/ for the USA.

 

Both sites can deal with international orders.

 

 

Michelle Desilets, Director

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK

www.savetheorangutan.org.uk

" Primates Helping Primates "

 

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