9 Oct 2008 - New Excersise Enclosure for Sepilok
Over the last six months the Appeal has been invloved in funding many projects for Sepilok. We have again sponsored the vet and vet nurse for another year at the centre, provided new veterinary equipment, carried out extensive repairs to the night nursery and purchased a new washing machine. We have maintained the 4 wheel drive Land Rover and provided the centre with Broadband internet access to improve communications. But best of all we have replaced the exercise enclosure which was our very first project in 2001. Over the years the metal had corroded and so this time we have provided it in stainless steel - costly at £15,000, but it should last a long time!
It has been 8 months since Naru, Rosalinda and Anekara took their final steps along the rehabilitation program at Sepilok, and were released into the rainforest reserve surrounding the centre. In this time all three have made great progress and have continued to expand their skills by watching and learning from the older orangutans already living independently in the reserve.
In February 2008 the Forestry department on the North coast of West Kalimantan confiscated a baby orangutan. Two months later they received another rescue baby. These two babies have been waiting in a transit camp in a town called Pontianak for help to transfer them to a Rehabilitation Centre where they would have the chance of being reintroduced to the wild.
In March this year our Trustee – Veterinarian Dr Roger Coley – joined 
The Appeal is now in the second year of the Post Release Monitoring project in Tabin, a protected forest reserve in the south of Sabah. We initially ran trials of this research in the Kabili reserve which surrounds Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre (SRC) and progressed to Tabin in August 2006 along with four young rehabilitated orangutans – Tompong, Suzanna, Brock and Toby who are our focal point.
Adopting a young orang is an excellent way to help the projects and get something back in return.
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