Comments on: From the Forest https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/ Dedicated to the Conservation of Orangutans and their Rainforest Homes Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Erin Vogel https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-429 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:12:25 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-429 Dear Mitzy, Christina, and Alongamoh,

Thank you all of you for your comments and kind words. We are working hard trying to keep these programs going. Christina, please feel free to contact me for any advice you may need pursuing your dreams!

Best wishes
Erin

]]> By: Alongamoh Nkemanteh Edwin https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-345 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:37:38 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-345 Hi Erin,
I must say your article is resourceful and a motivational tool to every one involved in primate conservation be great apes or other related primates species. I live in Cameroon and have worked with a conservation organization involved in Cross River gorilla and P t ellioti conservation for 4 years but never had the opportunity to meet with a researcher who has studied wild orangutans.
I have always watched this beautiful creatures on the internet and the television and had very little knowledge on their ecology. Your article has given me an insight into the ecology of this beautiful creatures, the conservation strategies adopted, the challenges encountered which are similar with respect to other primate conservation efforts and the approaches adopted to meet with these challenges.

Continue with your good work as it is the work of many primatologist like yourself that makes the word Exticntion “extinct in itself”.

]]> By: Christina Pasetta https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-344 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:28:30 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-344 Erin,
Your important work and rich life are incredible examples I wish to emulate. As a zookeeper of Orangutans I struggle with the hope/reality that their wild brethren can some day see the effects of their life as proponents for a species. The information that researchers like yourself provide for us in the zoo world allows for a dialogue with our patrons and fellow professionals in order to be the best champions for Orangutans as possible. I sincerely wish you the best of luck on your work and I hope to soon find a professor with whom I may further my education and continue similar profound research to shed even brighter light on these amazing individuals.
Thank you again.
Christina

]]> By: mitzy https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-338 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:03:03 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-338 I’m so thankful there are ppl like them who have the ability to help save the orangutan i’m disabled and are not able to…..so thx

]]> By: Erin Vogel https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-331 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:25:05 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-331 Dear Lesa and Guenter,
thank you for your comments and your very kind words. It is amazing to see how the kids really love the environmental education program and how much the communities have embraced it. I hope we have the funds to continue the project for a long time – that is what is most important! We are working on it! I am fortunate to work with several amazing orangutan researchers at Tuanan – it is a wonderful site and the community support we have is great. I look forward to working there for a long time. I will start updating the web page with new pictures of our progress, so please check back in with us!

Unfortunately, we recently had another baby orangutan brought to camp – he was in good health and BOS-F Nyaru menteng came for him, but once again it is very sad to see this happen over and over. I hope we can change this.

Cheers
Erin

]]> By: Guenter Heinze https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-321 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:49:43 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-321 Dear Erin,
Your article is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I really like the details of your work mentioned and how you and your group are addressing the environmental education of the “locals”. For me it is a must to do. You are conducting an excellent work. Hope to hear more about your work/activities . Good luck and further success!
Regards,
Guenter

]]> By: Tom https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-318 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:38:25 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-318 In reply to Lesa Miller.

Thank you Lisa. I’ll make sure Dr. Vogel sees your kind comments.

]]> By: Lesa Miller https://orangutan.com/from-the-forest-3/#comment-317 Thu, 31 May 2012 20:59:42 +0000 https://orangutan.com/?p=3116#comment-317 Thank you, Tom & OC, for sharing this fantastic article about Dr. Vogel’s work in Indonesia. I enjoy reading her own accounts of the field work she does regarding food selection/availability, to better understand how orangutans manage with environmental change. And of course, the orangutan rescues are of particular dramatic appeal! I empathize here, having fostered a bush-meat orphan infant chimpanzee for several months in 2009… a bittersweet & truly unforgettable experience. It’s not easy working in the trenches, going without the luxuries & conveniences of “modern” life. I suppose that’s the very reason for its appeal, though. May Dr. Vogel’s passion continue to fuel her good work for orangutans & other species through educational programs available to the locals, in hopes of building appreciation for their invaluable wildlife & rainforests.

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