News - BOS International

Tuberculosis strikes orangutans in sanctuary
(24 November 2011)

Himba - the latest arrival at Nyaru Menteng
(11th October 2011)

A sanctuary of sun bears
(2 August 2011)

Agroforestry project restores wildlife habitat
(7 July 2011)

BOS Board of Trustees' Chairman to discuss orangutan release program with presidential advisers
(14 February 2011)

Forest ecosystem restoration concession licence opens door for orangutan releases
(18 Janaury 2011)

BOS Foundation international donor conference
(8  November 2010)

A happy ending for orangutans Bulu, Jo and Abdul
(19 October 2010)

Orangutans in captivity in dire need of jungle home
(25 September 2010)

Orangutans running out of jungle
(9 September 2010)

Orangutans in rehabilitation to get new homes in Kalimantan
(25 August 2010)

BOS to release first rehabilitated orangutans in 9 years
(23 August 2010)

Borneo experiment shows how saving the apes could save ourselves
(19 May 2010)

Red alert: conservationists name 25 primates most at risk
(18 February 2010)

Forest concession may give Indonesia's orangutans shelter
(20 November 2009)

Rescued orangutans face new test of survival
(13 November 2009)

An orangutan called "Aox"
(28 October 2009)

BOS Foundation returns 46 orangutans to the wild
(6 September 2009)

Help stop Borneo burning
(31 August 2009)

Wild at heart
(24 July 2009)

Lone Droscher-Nielsen - Destruction of rainforests amounts to orangutan genocide
(1 May 2009)

Experts feud over how to save apes
(26 April 2009)

New orangutan population found in Indonesia
(12 April 2009)

BOS Founder Willie Smits tells the Samboja Lestari story
(6 March 2009)

Orangutan doctor - Dr David Irons
(24 February 2009)

Regrowing Borneo's rainforest - tree by tree
(2 January 2009)

A sad goodbye
(14 December 2008)

An update on Kerry
(28 October, 2008)

Orangutan saviour supplies clean water
(18 October, 2008)

The fight to save Asia's apes
(6 October, 2008)

No way to treat an orangutan
(6 September, 2008)

A vacation with a purpose
(7 August, 2008)

A successful release
(4 August, 2008)

Another baby finds sanctuary at Nyaru Menteng
(17 July, 2008)

Research confirms orangutan population decline
(4 July, 2008)

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 »

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 »

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 »

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."

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 »

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

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 »

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