Orangutan Diary

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Orangutan Diary
An orangutan swinging in trees
Genre	Nature documentary
Presented by	Michaela Strachan Steve Leonard
Starring	Lone Drøscher Nielsen
Composer	David Poore
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	11
Production
Executive producer	Sara Ford
Producers	Nigel Pope Simon Bell
Production location	Borneo
Running time	Series 1: 30 minutes Series 2: 60 minutes
Production company	BBC Natural History Unit
Original release
Network	Series 1: BBC One Series 2: BBC Two
Release	20 April 2007 (2007-04-20) – 19 April 2009 (2009-04-19)
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Orangutan Diaries is a nature documentary series on the BBC,^[1][2] which follows the lives of Bornean orangutans in the care of Lone Drøscher Nielsen, a member of the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) foundation. The program tries to detail the threat that the orangutans face in day-to-day life. The presenters Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard follow the careers of the orangutans daily to see what the centre has to deal with.

The centre was founded in 1994, a year after Lone Dröscher Nielsen permanently moved to Borneo. She could see what effect the palm oil plantations were having on the orangutans, so then founded the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project, which now is the largest ape rescue project in the world. The first series aired on BBC One in April 2007 and the second series on BBC Two in March 2009.^[3][4] Both series are available as DVDs^[5][6]