Indonesia -30 Years of Conservation

Your experienceTravel deep into the lush rainforests of Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra. This is one-off tour, celebrates 30 years of conservation for the Orangutan Foundation together with Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) and is an exclusive co-operation with both organisations.

• Join experts from the Orangutan Foundation and SOCP to gain an insight into conservation projects in Borneo and Sumatra.

• Take river journeys through dense jungle, spotting orangutan, proboscis monkeys and monitor lizards

• Travel knowing your costs contribute directly towards the Orangutan Foundation and SOCP. Each project will receive a £2,000 donation per person.

Arrive into Jakarta.

Fly from Jakarta to Pangkalan Bun. From here, journey into Tanjung Puting National Park.

Visit Pondok Tanggui and Camp Leakey, see orangutans in the wild.

Return to Pangkalan Bun, visit Yayorin conservation village enroute.

Your itinerary

Visit Lamandau Wildlife Reserve, an orangutan reintroduction site.

Fly from Pangkalan Bun to Medan, via Jakarta.

Visit SOCP Rescue and Rehabilitation Station.

Explore SOCP Projects near Ecolodge Bukit Lawang.

Depart Medan.

Orangutan Foundation

Founded in 1990, Orangutan Foundation has a unique and diverse approach to orangutan conservation. We support all orangutan species and our work is carried out by a team of dedicated Indonesian staff.

“Conservation is more than protecting a species, it is about saving nature which includes us, 'the fifth great ape'. The efforts of all of us to prevent global warming will be seen as a defining moment in history, for humanity's sake and for the health of the whole planet. Tropical forests can play a significant role in

guarding against climate change”.

Ashley Leiman OBE, Founder & Director/Trustee

Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme

The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) is a collaborative initiative between the Indonesia-based NGO the Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (YEL; Sustainable Ecosystem Foundation), Swiss-

based NGO the PanEco Foundation and Ecosystem Conservation.

The SOCP works on all aspects of conservation of the Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutan and Tapanuli orangutan.

Ashley Leiman

Ashley has been actively involved in Asian conservation for over 40 years. Her initial involvement was with the Natural History Society and Conservation Society in Hong Kong.

In 1985 she was on the organising committee of the New York Rainforest Alliance. After a visit to Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesian Borneo, Ashley set about establishing the Orangutan Foundation in the UK.

In 2006, Ashley received an OBE for her services to orangutan conservation.

Ashley is the Director of the Orangutan

Foundation, which she founded in 1990.

Regina Frey

After finishing her studies in biology at the University of Zurich, she travelled with a fellow student to Sumatra. On behalf of WWF International, the Indonesian government and the Frankfurt Zoological Society, the two women set up the first orangutan rehabilitation centre in Bukit Lawang in the Gunung Leuser National Park.

After returning to Switzerland, Regina continued her active involvement in the projects she initiated or supported in Indonesia. As a result, in 1996 she established the non-profit PanEco Foundation with headquarters in Berg am Irchel, the place where Regina Frey grew up.

Regina has been actively involved in the conservation of the habitat of the Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia since 1973.

Dr Ian Singleton

Ian is nowadays kept busy working to confiscate illegal pet orangutans and return them to a life in the wild, in field research and monitoring of the remaining wild Sumatran orangutan population, and in efforts to protect their habitat.

Orangutan specialist Ian Singleton has been working for the SOCP from initial conception.