Welcome to Camp Leakey
Camp Leakey was established in 1971 by Dr. Birute Galdikas and Rod Brindamour. Galdikas was encouraged in her dream of studying wild orangutans in the forests of southeast Alsia by the late paleoanthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey who also mentored Jane Goodall and the late Dian Fossey in their respective studies of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.
Camp Leakey is the site of the longest continuous study by one principal investigators of any wild non-human animal in the history of science. Dr. Golikas and her associates have logged over 100,000 hous of observation on focal wild orangutans in the 50km2 study area associated with the camp.
If you visit Camp Leakey midday, there will be one or two people present. Most of the staff and students, including Dr. Galdikas herself, spend the day in the forest searching for and observing wild orangutans as well as documenting forest ecology.
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