Recognising our Orangutan Champions

BOS Australia wishes to thank all their supporters who through their actions are helping in our fight to save the orangutans.

A special thanks to the following people and organisations:

Over the years, Aussie Dog enrichment items have repeatedly proved their worth in not only keeping the orangutans challenged but also in surviving some pretty rough treatment.

Aussie Dog has always come to the assistance of BOS Australia with the offer of donated items as well as significant discounts. Our thanks to Joe and his team.

The Judith Eardley Save Wildlife Association generously sponsored an important stage in our Welding for Welfare program. With its donation, we were able to send an electrician to Nyaru Menteng and to bring two enrichment technicians and a veterinarian to Zoos Victoria as part of a broader skills transfer program in 2008.

It is also providing ongoing support through its Wildlife Pledge site where supporters are able to make ongoing donations to BOS.

Joan Pearson has been a wonderful friend to the orangutans and bears over many years. Her hospitality is renowned and she has opened up her Sydney home to numerous events, raising significant funds for BOS.

Thank you so much for all you do Joan!

A special thanks to Sandie Morris of Bearpatch Crafts who spends considerable time and effort handmaking fabric shoulder bags for BOS to sell at events and stalls.

Each bag is unique and depicts the BOS orphans, making them very popular with orangutan supporters.

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 »