Dr. Meredith Bastian

Dr. Bastian began her work with orangutans in 2003 as a PI and Field Site Director & Researcher at Duke University. During this time, she conducted extensive fieldwork at two wild orangutan research sites within Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. The research focused on the geographically variable innovative behavior and feeding ecology in the wild populations […]

Dr. Raffaella Commitante

Dr. Raffaella Commitante is OC’s President. She joined Orangutan Conservancy in 2007. Previously she had been living in Borneo working with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation at their facility in East Kalimantan (Samboja Lestari).  She received her Master’s Degree from California State University, Fullerton where she now teaches in the Division of Anthropology/Evolutionary Anthropology.  She also occasionally […]