Lone Dröscher Nielsen is a wildlife conservationist. She first came into contact with great apes as a volunteer while working as a flight attendant with a Swedish airline. She saw the plight of Bornean Orangutan, where this highly intelligent primate, who shares almost 97% DNA with us humans, is rapidly losing its natural habitat due to logging and setting up Oil Palm plantations.

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  • Lone Dröscher Nielsen is a wildlife conservationist. She first came into contact with great apes as a volunteer while working as a flight attendant with a Swedish airline. She saw the plight of Bornean Orangutan, where this highly intelligent primate, who shares almost 97% DNA with us humans, is rapidly losing its natural habitat due to logging and setting up Oil Palm plantations. To address this issue, in 1993 Lone moved permanently to Borneo and in 1994 founded Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation which quickly became the largest primate rescue project in the world, with more than 600 orangutans in its care at the present . The BOS Foundation not only saves the mostly orphaned baby orangutans from the local farmers and illegal pet-traders, but has developed a process for their gradual re-introduction to the remaining Borneo rainforest. At the present, Lone lives near the Nyaru Menteng Rescue Center, Kalimantan, Borneo, managing a specialized clinic of veterinarians and paramedics as well as a workforce of local Indonesians who work as babysitters caring for the orphaned orangutans in the center.
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  • Study and protection of orangutan, conservation, re-introduction to wild
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  • Lone Dröscher Nielsen
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  • Lone Dröscher Nielsen is a wildlife conservationist. She first came into contact with great apes as a volunteer while working as a flight attendant with a Swedish airline. She saw the plight of Bornean Orangutan, where this highly intelligent primate, who shares almost 97% DNA with us humans, is rapidly losing its natural habitat due to logging and setting up Oil Palm plantations.
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  • Lone Dröscher Nielsen
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  • Lone Dröscher Nielsen
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