Michelle Desilets is the Founder and Executive Director of Orangutan Land Trust and has been working in orangutan conservation for 27 years. Michelle
Michelle Desilets – Executive Director
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Lone Droscher-Nielsen – President & Trustee
Lone Droscher-Nielsen is President and Trustee to Orangutan Land Trust. She has worked in orangutan conservation since 1993 and founded what is now th
Prof David Chivers – Chair & Trustee
Professor David Chivers, MA, PhD, ScD, FLS, FZS, FRGS, was born in April 1944, and from Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, he came up to Sidney Su
Thijs Pasmans – Trustee
Thijs started as a sustainability officer at MVO – The Netherlands Oils and Fats Industry in 2014. During this time he learned from traders, refiner
Judith Murdoch – Trustee
Judith first realised her passion for sustainability when she was the Marketing and CSR Manager at a global edible oils Company. Here she developed st
A Wake Up Call: Prevention of Pandemic Outbreaks through Sustainability
With the world’s attention focused on the global pandemic of the coronavirus, it may seem an unusual time for me to write an article about palm oil.
Can palm oil save orangutans?
Millions of people around the world have seen the footage of the lone wild orangutan in an apocalyptic landscape of destroyed forest desperately tryin
How to make sense of orangutan numbers
“Nobody knows exactly how many orangutans there are in the wild of Borneo and Sumatra. Everybody who says he does is lying”. Interview orangutan e