Borneo Orangutan Survival International

NUSA DUA, Bali (JP): President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched Monday an action plan to conserve the country’s endangered orangutans and release those currently in sanctuaries back into the wild. (more…)

 BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — The Nature Conservancy, a leading conservation organization, pledged one million U.S. dollars to support an Indonesian plan aimed at saving the country’s orangutans from extinction. (more…)

Legian, The Governor of Riau, and Chief Executives (Bupatis) of Siak and Pelalawan districts issued a joint agreement today with the Riau Forest Rescue Alliance Network (Jikalahari) to save the Kampar Peninsula peat swamp forest. The agreement reached in the Jayakarta Hotel in Legian, Bali , is part of efforts to reduce global warming in connection with the UN conference on climate change.    (more…)

One significant factor in climate change is deforestation and Indonesia, the host of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, is losing an area of forest the size of a soccer field every 10 seconds. Most threatened are the peatlands of Kalimantan, home to many of the country’s orangutans. (more…)

Conservationists working to combat deforestation on the island of Borneo have uncovered a “hidden colony” of 800 orang-utans in an area under imminent threat from the expansion of the palm oil industry. (more…)