Wildlife of Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo

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I've been trying to catch up with some video editing from the summer, and getting this one done was high on my priority list. This is a film of some of the wildlife that can be seen at Tanjung Puting National Park, which is in Indonesian Borneo. The main draw to the very few people who manage to get there are the orangutans - the park has the greatest population of wild orangutans found anywhere on Earth. It is also home to Camp Leakey, where until over 12 years ago rehabilitated orangutans were released back into the wild. At Camp Leakey, these individuals and their 'bicultural' offspring still receive daily supplementary feeds. Orangutans have been studied at Camp Leakey for 40 years, and the existence of the park in no small part is a result of the work of the founder of Camp Leakey and the Orangutan Foundation, Birute Galdikas.

The peat swamp forest is also home to a range of other primates, birds, reptiles and amphibians, some of which are shown here. It's difficult to do Tanjung Puting justice - it really is one of the finest places to study wildlife in the World, and I feel privileged to spend time there each year.