Borneo Orangutan Survival International

World Society for the Protection of Animals helps BOS.

WSPA throughout the world is helping Borneo Oranguan Survial to raise much needed finances for the Orangutan Reintroduciton Project, Nyaru Menteng.

The existence of Nyaru Menteng is threatened after loss of a very high donor last year. So for the year 2007 WSPA is doing fundraising in order to save the project. The WSPA campaign was launched this week in the Netherlands, please go to www.wspa.nl for more information.

You may also watch a news clip about the launch of the campaing (in Dutch): nos Go to ~ minute 0:06:45.

The orangutan is on the verge of extinction due to poaching and habitat loss. Now deep in the heart of Borneo orangutans and Dayaks, the local aboriginal people, have come together in a unique program. Dayak women have become surrogate mothers to hundreds of orphaned orangutans.

This is a story of sacrifice and salvation, tragedy and hope as mothers from simple backgrounds join together with …  (more…)