News - BOS Australia

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.

Trilogy, producer of natural skin and hair care products, has launched an ongoing campaign to support endangered orangutans in South East Asia. Trilogy will donate NZ$1.00 from the sale of each specially marked box of its hero product, Certified Organic Rosehip Oil to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.

Zoos Victoria has launched a community advocacy campaign called "Don't Palm Us Off".  Find out how you can help.

5 July
Thank you to the walkers and their sponsors for a successful Big Walk in aid of the orangutans.

In conjunction with the Sydney Film Festival's screening of The Burning Season, Sydney's Customs House is sceening documentary trailers on its Digital Media Wall and displaying still photographs of the orangutans highlighted in the film along with stills from the film.

An important orangutan habitat in Sumatra is to be logged to provide pulp. Please make your voice heard on this issue.

25 April 2009
We draw supporters attention to the proposal by timber giant, Asia Pulp & Paper, to clear 33,776 hectares of forest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra, Indonesia.

6 December 2008
As far as mercy missions go Jessica McKelson has seen it all in her battle to save the orangutans in Borneo

26 November 2008
THEY may be too young to drive or vote but Braybrook College students are old enough to know what's important to them. Around 30 Year 7 students are launching their own campaign against unsustainable palm oil production.

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?

15 September 2008
On Tuesday 12th August, Year 7 Indonesian classes (7G, 7H & 7M) hoped to make a difference by participating in Vincentia High School’s Inaugural Orangutan Day.

9 September 2008
Two Healesville organisations are proving their worth in the fight to save Borneo's orangutans.

9 July 2008
Watching the orang-utans at Melbourne Zoo, it's easy to see how Fleur Butcher fell in love with the primates

A review of Thinkers of the Jungle by Sydney Morning Herald's Nick Galvin

TO SOME it is liquid gold, to others, the harbinger of death - but to most Australians, palm oil is a complete mystery.