Rescue

The team at Nyaru Menteng also operates a rescue service and has rescued over 300 wild orangutans.

With the orangutan's habitat being destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, orangutans have insufficient food and have no option but to eat the young leaves of the oil palm.

Orangutans find themselves as the number one enemy of the plantation companies, some of which will encourage local people to kill the orangutans and reward them with Rp 150,000 per head.

The companies will also bulldoze small pockets of remaining forest which may be serving as a refuge for orangutans. 

Currently 90% of orangutans under the age of three at Nyaru Menteng have been rescued from areas of oil palm development.

BOS Foundation works co-operatively with the Ministry of Forestry to try and change these practices.

In the interim, the displaced orangutans are captured, given a medical check up and reintroduced after any necessary rehabilitation.

Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project

Rehabilitation Process

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.