It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr. Ian Singleton to Global Conservation's Senior Advisory Board. Dr. Singleton is the Director of Conservation at PanEco Foundation and Scientific Director for the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme. He was formerly the Senior orangutan keeper at Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust and Animal keeper at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Zoological Society of London. He studied at the University of Kent (Ph.D., Ecology; orangutan ranging behavior, 1996 – 2000) and the University of Sunderland (BSc(Hons), Environmental Science, 1984 – 1987). On completion of his thesis, he joined the Swiss-based PanEco Foundation and Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari in 2001 to establish the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme. In 2020 he received the distinguished honor of Officer of the Order of the British Empire from the Queen of England. This highly esteemed award is in recognition of Ian’s more than 30 years of work and dedication to the protection of orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia.
Ian is kept busy working to confiscate illegal pet orangutans and return them to a life in the wild, in field research and monitoring of the remaining wild Sumatran orangutan population, and in efforts to protect their habitat.
"I have know Dr. Ian Singleton for nearly ten years and he never ceases to amaze me with his passionate dedication to saving Sumatran orangutans and their habitats," says Jeff Morgan, Executive Director of Global Conservation. "We are especially proud to see him recognized this year by the Queen of England with the Officer of the Order of the British Empire."
You can keep up with Dr. Singleton on Twitter.
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