Thanks to your amazing support, we are getting closer to our goal! Thank you to you all and we are excited to share an update with you on our project in the Bukit Batikap Protection Forest!
The BOS Foundation Post Release Monitoring (PRM) team have been busy collecting data from the cameras.
One of our highlights has to be these images of relatively new mother, Manggo, together with her baby Melki! Manggo was released on Valentine’s Day in 2013 as a 7ish year-old, together with her mother Markisa and baby brother Uli. After her release, Manggo quickly gained her independence and 8 years later we are delighted to see her with her own baby. Both are very healthy and undoubtedly Manggo is a great Mum to curious little Melki. In case you were wondering the name Melki comes from our former PRM Coordinator at Batikap who was instrumental in helping to set up our camera trap project. Thank you Melki and it looks like Manggo and your namesake dropped by one of the cameras to say thank you too!
We have a few more orangutans on camera that we are still trying to identify and we are pretty sure that one or two of them might be orangutans we released with their mothers when they were still young and they are now entering their teenage years. Orangutans’ faces can change quite significantly as they grow up and we are checking back with the babysitters and veterinarians at Nyaru Menteng to see if they can help us identify these individuals.
So many other species have been passing by the cameras and we are busy labeling all of the 223,000 images we have gathered so far. For now we wanted to share a few of those, like these two muntjacs’ who spent ages standing in front of this particular camera grooming each other with gentle licks (kisses). We also captured this image of a clouded leopard and a stunning image of an adult red langur.
As we continue to process all the data, we’ll report back with our latest findings and exciting new images.
Thank you for supporting the protection of our reintroduced orangutans. We couldn’t do it without you!
A huge thank you to everyone who has given so generously to support our exciting camera trap project and we are delighted to post an update especially for you.
Establishing our camera trap project only days before the global pandemic emerged, we have been incredibly fortunate that the dedicated BOS Foundation Post-Release Monitoring team in the Bukit Batikap Protection Forest (Batikap), has been able to safely continue to monitor the camera traps and retrieve ongoing data on the orangutans and so many other amazing wildlife species.
As one of our closest living relatives, orangutans are susceptible to all of the same diseases as humans and that includes COVID-19. Camera traps allow us to monitor the progress of the reintroduced orangutans, whilst reducing the risk of disease transmission between humans and orangutans. What better way to continue to study reintroduced orangutans during a global health crisis than by using non-invasive technology!
We have had quite a few visitors to our camera traps including Cindy and her baby Stellar. Cindy was reintroduced into Batikap in November 2013, together with her 6-year old son, Cilik, and 1 year old dependent daughter, Riwut. Cindy is an outstanding mother and once Riwut began to find her independence, Cindy welcomed her third child Stellar in Batikap during January 2019! As you can see from the photos, there is no end to Cindy’s patience and although these aren’t the clearest camera trap images we’ve recorded, we couldn’t resist sharing these photos of Stellar balancing on Cindy’s head! We are very happy to report that mother and daughter continue to flourish in the forest and we hope to catch up with them again soon.
In the meantime, the data we are gathering from the camera traps on other species found in Batikap is outstanding. Many of these species are incredibly elusive and as a human observer in the forest you would rarely, if ever, have the chance to see them. We are delighted to share some of these images with you including this adorable young sun bear foraging, a young male sambar deer and this cheeky pig-tailed macaque selfie!
We excitedly await new data to arrive and look forward to updating you soon.
Thank you for your support!
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