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BOS International is pleased to announce a new alliance with the US-based Orangutan Outreach. The goal of the partnership is to raise funds for BOS projects in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo): orangutan rehabilitation centers at Nyaru Menteng and Wanariset, the reforestation program at Samboja Lestari, and the Mawas conservation program. (more…)
Dutch ecologist Willie Smits says he will never forget the day in October 1989 when he saw the desperately sad eyes of an orangutan baby looking at him from a dark cage on a market in the Indonesian seaport of Balikpapan.
Smits was so disturbed that he returned to the market that same evening, just in time to find the limp body of the orangutan lying on a rubbish heap where the trader had dumped it.
During the next 24 hours Smits managed to just save the orangutan from certain death, feeding it droplets of milk and water. (more…)
Orangutan Island will be aired on Animal Planet from November 2nd.
A desperate struggle for survival is raging deep in the heart of Borneo’s forests. Illegal logging is rapidly destroying the Bornean orangutans’ last stronghold in the wild — leaving hundreds of orangutan babies orphaned and homeless. Their
future seems bleak but a ground-breaking project provides real hope for ensuring the survival of the species. Meet the 35 classmates of Forest School 103 at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. (more…)
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A RIPLEY artists is helping the plight of the orangutan through his work.
Richard Childs entered his coloured pencil painting The Hope of Sepilok, into the United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society’s annual open international exhibition 2007 and was awarded the Founders Prize for best UK entry. (more…)
The IUCN Red List includes almost 200 more plants and animals than last year. Listen to the VOA News clip on the report here.
When the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria turned 30 years old this summer the organisation Borneo Orangutan Survival Sweden (BOS) gave her a symbolic adoption of the orangutan Kesi together with a book and DVD about the orangutans. Today BOS board members, Mattias Klum and Jonas Wahlström, will meet the Crown Princess at the royal castle to personally deliver the present.
Berlin: Juergen Trittin, deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Group becomes patron of BOS Germany. BOS Germany is one of the organisations under the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) that operates the worlds largest primates conservation project in Indonesia. ” We are extremely pleased with the acceptance from Juergen Trittin and it is a great honour for our organisation”. (more…)
The Government has introduced legislation to give effect to its plan for mandatory use of biofuels.
The Biofuel Bill implements the biofuels sales obligation (BSO) policy.
The BSO will mean suppliers of petrol and diesel will have to also supply a proportion of biofuels, beginning at 0.53 per cent in 2008 and increasing to 3.40 per cent by 2012. (more…)
Sydney, Wednesday October 10, 2007 .
Growing international demand for bio-fuels as an alternative to climate
polluting fossil fuels is a serious threat to the region’s last remaining tropical forests and could have serious
consequences for the world’s climate, Greenpeace warned today. (more…)
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