Location & Worldwide Collaborators
WHERE WE ARE LOCATED
OHP’s main base is located amongst the rice paddies in the village of Timbang Lawan, approximately 80 km from Medan, the capital of the province of North Sumatra, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Research is conducted in three locations on Sumatra, all within the amazing Leuser Ecosystem, which spans the provinces of North Sumatra and Aceh and is one of the richest expanses of protected tropical rain forest in Southeast Asia. Research is also conducted in two locations in the province of Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, in Tuanan and in the Sebangau National Park., home to one of the highest wild orangutan populations in Borneo. The head of the project and principal investigator, MV Dr. Ivona Foitova PhD, is based in Brno, in the Czech Republic.
OHP WORLDWIDE COLLABORATORS
OHP is fostering cooperation between scientists from around the world, who are exchanging knowledge across fields of study and on a wide range of research topics.
OHP is working in collaboration with the following institutions:
- UMI - Saving of Pongidae Foundation, Brno, Czech Republic, Europe
- Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
- Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Europe
- Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
OHP is working in collaboration with the following individuals:
Dr. Helen Morrogh-Bernard
Project Director and Orangutan Research Director of Ou Tropical Peatland Project (OuTrop), Sebangau, Kalimantan, Indonesia
Mgr. Karel Doležal, Dr.
Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacky University & Institute of Experimental Botany Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Professor M. A. Huffman, D.Sc. M.Sc. D.Sc. Zoology
Director of the CHIMPP Group, Coordinator of Self-Medication Studies In Primates: Section of Ecology, Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, Japan
Specialist in Behaviour, Ecology and Ethnobotany
Dipl. Ing. Milan Olšanský
President, UMI Saving of the Pongidae Foundation, Photo Documentaries and Technical Director
Dr. Norman J. Pieniazek M.Sc., Ph.D.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Biology and Diagnostics Branch, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Specialist in PCR analysis
Dr. Wisnu Nurcahyo DVM
Department of Parasitology, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Specialist in Parasitology
The map below illustrates OHP’s efforts to promote cooperation around the world for the research and conservation of the orangutan.