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 center will likely be closed and move more deeply inside the national park. To solve these problems, people need to be more aware about these serious problems. The main reason for the closure is heavy tourism. Today, the center barely survives on a portion of the $. the center is a success and since it opened in 1973 a total number of 212 have been released. The orangutans are either put in a crate and carried by porters or the center uses helicopters to take them to a far place. Some of them arrive at the center in very poor condition. The center closed to receive more orangutans since 1996. The problem at the moment is there is little suitable forest area in which to reintroduce orangutans. This makes the population easier to lose and accelerates the decline in number.
Common topics in this essay:
Endangered Species,
World Wildlife,
Bukit Lawang,
National Park,
Mt Leuser,
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feeding platform,
orangutans center,
rehabilitation center,
indonesian government,
national park,
Critically Endangered,
major tourist attraction,
tourism major tourist,
illegal logging,
promoted tourism major,
promoted tourism,
females killed,
tourism major,
killed collect,
leuser national park,
welcomed promoted tourism,
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