10 November 2008
The first shipment of palm oil certified under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is expected to arrive in Europe Tuesday, but an environmental group is already criticizing the initiative's credentials.
13 December 2010
Close to 90 percent of the world’s orangutans are found in Indonesia. And Kalimantan is their home. Which is why the orangutan is widely known as the island’s flagship species.
11 December 2009
A company that produces many of Britain’s best-known household brands has been exposed as contributing to the destruction of rainforests by buying thousands of tonnes of illegal palm oil.
12 December 2014
The world's largest orangutan rescue organization, Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) reported the horrific killing of a female orangutan this month. She was found in a palm oil plantation that belonged to a subsidiary of the Makin Group of Indonesia.
3 November 2016
Following a long process to secure the rights to utilize parts of Salat Island in Pulang Pisau Regency, Central Kalimantan, the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation in collaboration with the local community have been granted permission to establish an orangutan conservation area on Salat Island
3 August 2011
Consider it from the businessman’s perspective: It all makes so much sense. The rainforest, vital for people, biodiversity, and global climate, is being cut down to make money.
24 November 2010
Bornean apes went through a genetic bottleneck during ancient glaciation.
A few weeks ago, our post-release monitoring (PRM) team in Central Kalimantan’s Bukit Batikap Protection Forest set out to find and observe Meklies and her newborn, Matahari. Our Totat Jalu Camp team had named the baby... View Article
22 November 2008
California and two other U.S. states signed a pact late on Tuesday with Indonesia's Aceh province that could see forest carbon credits from Aceh accepted into U.S. emissions trading schemes.
7 February 2011
An increasing part of Malaysia’s palm oil is produced at the account of huge areas of tropical peatswamp forests.
21 December 2009
A day after Indonesian officials at the UN Climate talks praised PT Sinar Mas, the country's largest palm oil producer, for its sustainable operations, international conservation group Greenpeace took another swing at Sinar Mas, this time taking aim at its pulp and paper arm.
3 April 2013
The much-touted new deforestation policy of controversial paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) will save almost no forests in its main base of operations, Sumatra, Indonesia, a new report by NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest has concluded.
22 March 2017
At the end of February, a joint team from the Central Kalimantan BKSDA and the BOS Foundation embarked on an orangutan rescue mission to save a group of orangutans stranded along the banks of the Mangkutub River in Kapuas Regency, Central Kalimantan.
In commemorating Indonesia’s 73rd year of independence, and forging on with the #OrangutanFreedom campaign, the BOS Foundation has released another 10 orangutans from the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Center to the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National... View Article
19th December2015
Join our VP Lou Grossfeldt and Primate Keeper, Janet Lackey, who will both be in Borneo at the Samboja Lestari Lodge from 10th to the 24th of February 2016 working on the ongoing behavioural enrichment project for the non releasable Orangutans.
18 January 2013
BOS Australia President, Tony Gilding said "An important new paper was released just before Christmas. It was co-authored by no less than five staff members of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation as well as other eminent scientists."
6th April 2017
The Western focus on saving the endangered Borneo orang-utan from palm oil plantations overlooks the industry’s effect on indigenous communities and the climate change impact of the loss of peat forests.
Lou Grossfeldt is BOS Australia’s longest-serving committee member and an internationally renowned expert in great ape conservation and primate husbandry and management. Together with writer David Blissett, she wrote ‘Amanka Stories: Saving the Last Apes’. It... View Article
December 2015
Grab a Family Christmas bundle pack to compliment your Dodo adoption. Gifts for all the family, at a special discount, which benefit the orangutans.
It was a clear morning when Usup, Lung, Fikar, and Remi – members of our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team from Nles Mamse Camp – recently headed into the Kehje Sewen Forest to patrol Transect 9 in... View Article
21 August 2008
Australia released an initial US$2 million Tuesday out of a US$13.7 million fund for Asia-Pacific nations to help protect forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the government announced Tuesday. The first two beneficiaries will be Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
20 May 2011
Environmentalists said Friday a long-awaited moratorium on logging in Indonesia, part of a $1 billion climate deal with Norway, is a "disaster" for forests and will do little to fight global warming.
Thurs 19-Sun 22 May 2011
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