Meet Lone

Lone Droscher Nielsen is the founder and manager of the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). This project, opened in 1999, is now the largest primate rescue project in the world, with over 530 orangutans in its care presently. The project not only rescues and rehabilitates hundreds of orphaned orangutan infants with the goal of a return to the wild, but also rescues hundreds of wild orangutans from palm oil plantations which clear their habitat and decimate their populations. Lone’s project is the only orangutan project actively rescuing wild orangutans. These orangutans are returned to safe forests which have been secured by Lone. Lone began working with orangutans 14 years ago while she worked as an air hostess with SAS. In 1993, she moved permanently to Borneo to devote her life to saving orangutans. Originally from Denmark, Lone is now being featured in a film called The World’s Most Remarkable Dane. Other films have featured the work of Lone and her team, most notably National Geographic’s Disenchanted Forest, Animal Planet’s Growing Up…Orangutan, BBC’s Apes In Danger: Orangutan, and the upcoming BBC series airing in January, Orangutan Diary. Work is in progress for the Saving Planet Earth series with David Attenborough, for which Lone’s project was chosen out of hundreds as one of the top 10 projects in the world working to help endangered animals. Stay tune for more about Lone... ****** Read more about Lone in this Jakarta Post article