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Our achievements 2010-2011
We at BOS Australia, are pleased to share our major achievements for the last year.
Financial summary
We raised over $720,000 in the year ending 30 June 2011.
Of this, $615,530 was sent to BOS Foundation Indonesia to support various projects, including preparation costs for the release of orangutans into the wild.
John Cochrane's donation
Major donor, John Cochrane donated $430,000 for the purchase of land in East Kalimantan for releases and also to house unreleasable orangutans on islands in Central Kalimantan.
Fundraising sources
As in previous years we relied on the generosity of our donors to assist in the welfare of the orangutans of Borneo. Our adoption program and donations were the largest source of funding, but we also raised awareness and further funds at a few major events during the year including a lecture visit from BOS Indonesia Chairman and CEO.
From our affiliation with Planet Ark’s Aware palm oil-free products we gratefully received a donation of just over $20,000.
Orang-U-Friends program
The Orang-U-Friends school program encourages school children of any age to learn more about the plight of orangutans in the wild.
It engages youngsters by explaining the unique qualities that make orangutans special and talks about the work that BOS Australia and BOS Foundation (BOSF) does to help save orangutans, giving easy and achievable suggestions on how to get involved to raise awareness and money.
The money raised by schools gives them the opportunity to adopt one of our orangutans and receive information and updates on their chosen animal. It allows children to feel like that are a part of the program, and they know how the money they have raised is helping Orangutans in Indonesia. Over 20 orangutans were adopted during the last four months of this financial year. It’s this positive energy and enthusiasm of the next generation that is the key to saving this endangered species.
Keeper exchange
Lou Grossfeldt visited Borneo in July 2011 and through negotiations with BOSF and the Taronga Conservation Society Australia, it is hoped to develop a Keeper work experience program. The concept is for orangutan keepers from Samboja Lestarii to travel to Sydney to work alongside Lou and other key staff at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, helping to develop key enrichment and management strategies. The program will commence in 2012 with more trips to follow if deemed successful.
Lou’s visit to Samboja Lestarii was greeted with much praise from BOSF. They appreciated the assistance with orangutan behaviour enrichment programs.
Volunteer activities
$13,500 was raised through a number of small volunteer run events and raffles.
$19,000 was raised at a fund raising lunch run by the very generous and committed Joan Pearson.
A Canberra volunteer chapter started off with a bang late last year by engaging Professor Colin Groves in not just their wine and cheese evening, but also in some school visits. Professor Groves is a world renowned Primatologist and we are delighted that he invested some time in the education of our future decision makers.
Other Australian help
In addition to help from us, BOSF also received significant support from BHP and the Australian government via AusAID for their MAWAS program.
BHP donated the use of helicopters in East Kalimantan for relocations, along with providing steel for the quarantine cages in Nyaru Menteng.
Through their Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP), AusAID have engaged BOSF with community development and orangutan protection programs. This a valuable project allowing BOSF to continue their excellent work protecting the Mawas area, which has a large population of orangutans living in the wild.
Sewerage project
In February 2011 a team visited Nyaru Menteng to scope a new waste management system for this area where over 600 orangutans are awaiting release. The concept design was completed and with the help of Dr Keith Bolton from Ecoteam and Nik Hyde, the new waste system is now operational.
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Latest BOS News and Information
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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