With our current appeal all proceeds from sales will be sent to our sanctuaries to care for orangutans that will never be free.

Why can’t they be free, you ask… It’s not that we don’t want them to be free, it’s just that they can’t be.

You can help by making a donation, or purchasing a gift certificate:

•    for vet care
•    for nourishing food
•    for transporting babies to and from Forest School, or
•    to make their days enriched and stimulating.                 

Donations and virtual gifts are tax deductible.

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The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation will release at least six orangutans into the wild on April 22. Read Article »

Adopt one of our beautiful babies, Miko or Nita, new to our adoption program, for as little as $12 per month.



By adopting us, you help us and others like us get back to the rainforest. Adopt now

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Nyaru Menteng Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre now has a new wastewater treatment system that treats the dirty water from washing down orang-utan enclosures, from the clinic, from the kitchen, and from hand washing and some toilet facilities.

The new system was implemented from funding provided by BOS Australia and with the help of Nik Hyde (Nik Hyde Plumbing – Australia), Keith Bolton and Jayson Winmill (Ecoteam – Australia).

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Wanted

2-4  eco adventurers to visit remote jungle in  Borneo, spend 6 days travelling along impossible roads, cross raging rivers and pay a small fortune for the privilege.

Reward

See a stunningly beautiful remote and wild part of Borneo seldom seen by Indonesians let alone foreigners.

Know that your trip has helped in the first ever major release of Orangutans back to the wild. Read Article »

BOS Foundation 11th October 2011
What began as a regular Sunday at the Nyaru Menteng Project, turned into an afternoon of heartbreak.


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Latest BOS News and Information
Orangutans supplement diet with loris

18 January 2012
When fruit is scarce, try chomping on a slow loris. That seems to be the strategy adopted by the normally vegetarian orang-utans, which have been spotted knocking the small primates out of trees and killing them with a bite to the head. Read Article »

 
 
RSPO to certify 20% of palm oil output by 2015

18 January 2012
Indonesia's certified palm oil production is expected to reach about 5.6 million tons by 2015, or one-fifth of its total palm oil output throughout the year, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) auditing body estimates. Read Article »

 
 
Plight of orangutans highlighted with new rock song

17 January 2012
An Indonesian rock band, Navicula, is highlighting the plight of orangutans in their native country through a new song entitled, aptly, "Orangutan."

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Maria Agatha van Noordwijk: Delving deeper into orangutan conservation

4 January 2012
Maria Agatha van Noordwijk raised her eyebrow as she crossed out several Indonesian names on the list of orangutans she and her fellow experts and students studied in conservation projects in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Read Article »

 
 
Palm oil threat to Indonesia's orangutans

27 December 2011
Eight-month-old baby orangutan Elaine would have never survived without her carer Rosa.

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Don't trust the web

25 December 2011
Solaris Paper Pty Ltd, which supplies the Australian market with private label tissue products, is an Australian operated and managed affiliate of Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), a brand umbrella for paper products manufactured by a number of mills in Indonesia. Things got nasty recently when its tussle with Greenpeace over sourcing of rainforest timber became public. Read Article »

 
 
Will sustainable palm oil transform the market?

30 November 2011
The ambition of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was always to bring sustainable practices to the mainstream. Read Article »

 
 
Singapore chef tries new way to save rain forest

28 November 2011
Singapore-based chef Andre Chiang is on a mission to save a rain forest and he's planning to start by serving what an orangutan eats - wild ferns, orchid leaves and durian flowers, among other plants. Read Article »