Orangutan Rehabilitation
The Sumatran orangutans live in northern Sumatra, in the Mt. Leuser national Park. A special orangutan rehabilitation center has been established at Bohorok, Bukit Lawang, for orphaned orangutans, where orangutans are taught how to return to the wild again. Today rehabilitations has become very important, because population of orangutans are decreasing. It is difficult to teach them how to survive in the wild, because most of them were brought up by humans, and they did not learn any behaviors they should learn. Rehabilitation is very important because, if they were released to the wild without learning anything, they will die because they do not know how to live in the wild.The Bohorok Rehabilitation Center at Bukit Lawang in the eastern Langkat sector of Gunung Leuser National Park is the center handling orangutans' rehabilitation and relocation work in Sumatra. It was established in 1973 by two Swiss zoologists with funding from by the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) World Wildlife. In 1980, the center was taken over by the Indonesian government. Since then it has received no outside funding. It survives on a portion of the money paid by visitors. Bohorok's staff are responsible for about 35 orangutans who are free to come
The new orangutans are kept in cages in the quarantine area and get observed in order to establish which forest skills they have „_ e.g. if they know how to climb, how to eat wild foods, if they know how to build a nest or not. If the orangutan is a baby, it has to be taught all of these things. In the wild they learn these skills in the 6 years from their mothers. Until they can do all of these things, they are not ready to be reintroduced to the wild. Many orangutans need to build up strength. During their forest training they practice their climbing skills, learning which branches will support the weight and how to travel from tree to tree. The length of time each orangutan spends in the quarantine area is about 2 ~ 3 months minimum time. Most of them are much longer. Some orangutan never reach at the stage of being suitable for release. When the center feels that orangutan is ready to live on its own, it is released to the feeding platform. At the feeding platform, orangutans have minimum contact with humans. They are fed twice a day at the feeding platform. They are free to get their foods and milk if they want. The feeding enables rangers to observe the recently released orangutans to make sure they are coping well with living in the wild.Orangutan who show they can live on themselves are relocated. This will make way newer rehabilitation at the feeding platform. The orangutans are either put in a crate and carried by porters or the center uses helicopters to take them to a far place. The problem at the moment is there is little suitable forest area in which to reintroduce orangutans. the center is a success and since
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