Medical Wish-list for Nyaru Menteng

The medical requirements within the BOS rescue and rehabilitation centres are practically as wide-ranging as within human medical services. Can you help us out with a donation of any of the items on the wish list?

Background

The BOS staff are dealing with young orangutans who have lost the natural protection of their mothers’ milk and are living close together in an area of some of the most aggressive tropical diseases.

Orangutans suffer from the same illnesses as us. BOS sees regular cases of malaria, typhoid, typhus, dengue and the full spectrum of colds and flu, let alone the other diseases that can’t be diagnosed but are most definitely present (eg leptospirosis).

The assessments and treatments for these are effectively the same as with human patients.

The items listed are those considered to be the most essential and are also small enough to be taken into Indonesia personally with one of our volunteers.  Please contact us at contact@orangutans.com.au if you have access to any of the following items.

15 July 2010
Why should we protect the orangutan? It is a frequently asked question when lay-people, including businesspeople, discuss the need to protect orangutans, Asia's only great ape, which is greatly endangered. Read Article »

23 June 2010
If an orangutan blows a raspberry, smacks you on the side of your body or gives you a nip on the arm, don't worry. Read Article »

21 June 2010
Some New Zealand food companies are being slippery about whether they use palm oil, according to a Green Party survey.

6 June 2010
Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Australia and its Indonesian counterpart have secured a 112,000 hectare site in Kalimantan, Indonesia for the release of rehabilitated orangutans.

27 May 2010
Indonesia will introduce a two-year moratorium on deforestation to help tackle climate change, the country's president has said. Read Article »

28 May 2010
United States congressman Earl Blumenauer has called on the Australian Government to legislate to ban illegal timber imports into Australia.

27 May 2010
Cash-strapped Indonesia remains committed to protection of its rainforests as part of the global initiative to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) Plus scheme, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says.

27 May 2010
Indonesia will honor palm oil companies' existing contract despite its pledge to suspend new concessions to clear the nation's natural forests and peat lands for two years, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says.