Environmental
activists joined under the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) plan
to release 30 orangutans at the Pinus Jantho conservation center in Aceh Besar,
Nangroe Aceh Darussalam.
Activists
from three organizations joining the program, including Swiss-based PanEco
Foundation, the Ekosistem Lestari Foundation and the Forestry Ministry, were
currently training the orangutans in a quarantine center at Batu Mbelin, Deli
Serdang, North Sumatra, Antara news agency reported on Monday.
Ekosistem
Lestari Foundation director Ian Singleton said that the quarantine program was
to prepare the orangutans for life in the wild in their natural ecosystem.
The
activists had previously released 13 orangutans on October 20.
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