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[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

OFI re-wilding team planting tree seedlings yesterday. We have planted almost half a million trees since 2017 including student plantings done on our Orangutan Campaign. Our re-wilding team consists of 7 local people. We were basically on hiatus for 2 years during peak Covid.

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

As soon as wild adult male #orangutan Ahad is out of the transport cage, he jumps from the cage & heads for the trees through the vegetation. Our photographer blinked& Ahad was gone! What a journey it's been! From near-death in a palmoil plantation to back home in the wild.

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

Orangutan Foundation International (@OFIOrangutan ) rangers and Forestry Department officers (@bksdakalteng & @tanjungputingNP) take the anesthetized recovered wild adult male #orangutan to his transport cage. It is mid-April 2022. He is on his way home to the great forest!

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

The boat with recovered wild adult male #orangutan's transport cage lands at the release location and Ahad's cage is unloaded.

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

When the transport cage door opens, recovered wild adult male #orangutan Ahad doesn't hesitate for a second. He is out of the cage in no time flat!

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

Wounded male #orangutan Ahad who came into OFI's Care Center,Central Borneo, badly injured December 2019 has fully recovered but his face displays scars of healed cuts.He is as magnificent as he once was before being injured in a #palmoil plantation.Time for return to the wild!

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

I am re-tweeting photos of wounded wild adult male #orangutan Ahad rescued from a #palmoil plantation & brought in by BKSDA into OFI's Care Cente&Quarantine,Central Borneo,Indonesia where OFI's local veterinarians treated him. Ahad had 26lead pellets in his body,cuts& lacerations

[RATH ELLA @Rathella]

@SFU @OFIOffice @SFUInt Congratulations @DrBirute !!!

[Matt Smith @MattSmithWLU]

Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute will be the inaugural speaker of the Anne Innis Dagg Lecture series being hosted by @LaurierBiology on March 9 at 7 p.m. Dr. Galdikas is the world's foremost expert on orangutans, having studied them in the wild for almost 50 years!

[Orangutan Foundation International @OFIOrangutan]

3/3 Thank you to our brave field staff who are on the frontlines fighting the forest fires. Support us in helping orangutans and other wildlife by donating on our website. https://t.co/hqUX2t9ag6.

[She Walks With Apes @trimatesdoc]

“If we are studying a species in the wild and that species is on the verge of extinction, then I don't understand how anybody can say that it is more important to study that species rather than trying to save it.” - @DrBirute

[Orangutan Foundation International @OFIOrangutan]

Forests are being set ablaze to make way for agriculture, especially for #palmoil plantations. This year, the #forestfires are particularly severe due to drier-than-usual conditions.

https://t.co/rBv16NXvk1

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

#Forestfire OFI (⁦@OFIOffice⁩) Orangutan Foundation is fighting on eastern side of Park in Seruyan even as I tweet.This fire has been going for over 10 days&not yet been brought to heel. We are trying to prevent it from reaching untouched primary forest,
#orangutan habitat

[RATH ELLA @Rathella]

#orangutan rehabilitation takes years of commitment and #OFI has saved thousands of orangutans. I prefer to make my judgements based on facts and not misleading critics.

[RATH ELLA @Rathella]

I support #TanjungPutingNationalPark, and think others should too. Organic eco-tourism is good for local people and growing numbers of visitors provide opportunity for conciencious management.

[Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute @JaneGoodallInst]

Today, and every day, we must fight for endangered species. Contact your representatives and let them know that we must stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Read more: https://t.co/ALMy3bemky #ESA #EndangeredSpeciesAct

[Rainforest Alliance @RnfrstAlliance]

#Deforestation and forest degradation account for 10% of global #greenhousegas emissions. At @RnfrstAlliance, we believe it's of critical importance to come together, as a global community, to reforest degraded lands and #conserve the #forests that remain. https://t.co/EZxsyoJkKK

[Biruté Mary Galdikas @DrBirute]

Indonesia’s birds being wiped out by pet trade: https://t.co/U1UdblSyYS Not just in eastern part of Indonesia that birds are being wiped out

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

NEW RESCUE: With shocking wounds, poaching victim Simotua is now safe: http://t.co/3hkO43iTIZ

[go2Hainan @go2Hainan]

The last surviving #Hainan #gibbons face a high risk of extinction, only 25 individuals remain in Hainan!