A mother and baby orangutan, facing certain death, were rescued from hunters armed with machetes, knives and ropes. 

When the Rescue team arrived, the mother gave no resistance, which is extraordinary behavior for a wild orangutan, suggesting she was totally exhausted from being chased all night.

Hunters can be paid up to A$150 for each orangutan they kill.

The good news is that the release site was the Kehje Sewen site which was funded by Australian BOS donors including a significant contribution by John Cochran.

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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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Since the 1990s, BOSF has worked to rehabilitate captive orangutans and reintroduce them back into the wild. It now has a total 850 orangutans in rehabilitation — 650 at a facility in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan, and 200 in Samboja Lestari.

A recent Jakarta Globe article highlights the various stages and challenges of orangutan rehabilitation.

Photo: A baby orangutan at a Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation rehabilitation center in East Kalimantan on Jan. 11. (JG Photo/Fidelis E. Satriastanti)


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You may recall the note we sent around in October about baby Himba, who was rescued by a wood collector in Central Kalimantan. He had brought baby Himba to Nyaru Menteng in a small cardboard box.

We now bring you an update on his wellbeing.






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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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Can the jungle law save orangutans?

7 February 2012
There have probably been at least 2,800 confiscations of illegally kept orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra since the early 1970s. Read Article »
 
 
Don't hurt my baby!

27 January 2012
As bounty hunters with bush knives entrapped them in a circle and moved in for the kill, the only thing this mother orang-utan could think to do was to wrap a giant protective arm around her daughter. Read Article »
 
 
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 »