National Park
Lore Lindu
Indonesia
IndonesiaLowland Anoa · Hairy Babirusa
April to October
See parkHome of Camp Leakey, founded in 1971 by the primatologist Biruté Galdikas, a protégée of the same mentor who launched Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey
Area
4,150 km²
Protection category
IUCN II
Parque nacional —
Designated in
1982
Declared in 1982, Tanjung Puting is home to Camp Leakey, founded in 1971 by the Lithuanian-Canadian primatologist Biruté Galdikas, the least known of the three "Leakey's Angels" — alongside Jane Goodall (chimpanzees) and Dian Fossey (gorillas) — all of them sent out by the palaeoanthropologist Louis Leakey to study the great apes in their own habitat. Galdikas remains involved in orangutan research and rehabilitation in the park more than five decades after founding it, in the longest continuous primate study devoted to this species anywhere in the world.
Ecosystems found in Indonesia, where Tanjung Puting lies.
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Region
South-East Asia (Borneo, Kalimantan)
Climate
Tropical
Best season
April to October
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