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Mohammed Shakil, 32, and Waheed Ali, 25, were sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to attend a terrorist training camp but were cleared of conspiracy to cause the deadly July 2005 London bombings...
...Galdikas set up the Camp Leakey rehabilitation center in southern Borneo's Tanjung Putting National Park. To date, the camp has rehabilitated more than 350 orangutans, helping orphaned former pets successfully return to the wild. It also continues to care for another 300 juveniles. To help raise money for its work - and for the charity over which Galdikas presides, Orangutan Foundation International, www.orangutan.org - Camp Leakey is open to visitors, who are encouraged to "adopt" a young orangutan by contributing towards its keep. (See 10 things to do in Washington, D.C.: National...
...Potential adoptees often greet visitors as they arrive, which is magical. This is no arm's-length orangutan encounter, with the shadows of great apes ambling through trees glimpsed through a long camera lens. At Camp Leakey, you can pat, hug and hold hands with the animals. Even getting to the camp is an enchantment: you putter up river for hours on a local kelotok boat, and weave through rain forest. "We need to have more tourists visit in order to provide a livelihood for people," says Ferry Candra, a national-park guide. "Without them, locals will just go back...
...With, at most, 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, experts predict that the species could disappear in less than 20 years if more is not done to preserve their habitat. In the battle to save the orangutan, the camp is at once the front line and a sanctuary. And as a bright-eyed baby climbs into your lap, you cannot help but wonder, with some sadness, if Camp Leakey is also the orangutan's last stand...
...nice way for the community to celebrate SUP and get a lot of alumni reinvolved with the program.” The Summer Urban Program has been serving over 800 youths in the greater Boston area each year for over 25 years through 10 community-based summer camps. Each camp is run by a student director and is staffed entirely by students from Harvard and other Boston-area schools. “Each of the programs is important within its community. There’s an element of social change in meeting these kids’ needs and helping...