June 1, 2006—Santa Monica, CA.  Following a review of the submitted proposals, the Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative (OUREI) awarded the 2006 LP Jenkins Memorial Fellowship to Gail Angela Campbell-Smith for her entry entitled, “Bittersweet knowledge: Can people and orangutans live in harmony?

The objective of her study, scheduled to begin in the Fall, is to produce the first detailed analysis of human-orangutan conflict and behavioral data of isolated orangutans in three different agricultural-forest zones within North Sumatra, Indonesia.  The LP Jenkins Fellowship will provide an award of US$1,000 to defray the cost of her two-year study.

Gail will be conducting this research as part of her doctoral program at the University of Kent, England.  Her study design was highly rated by the proposal evaluation committee who also felt the output of the study would be supportive of the current focus of OUREI.

The LPJenkins Fellowship was named in honor of Lorraine Phyllis Jenkins, mother of Dr. Gary Shapiro, and is a competitive award open to all graduate and undergraduate students planning to conduct field research on orangutans, related rainforest or conservation education in Indonesia.

For more information, visit the LP Jenkins page

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