The female orangutan Jossy, who has been popular amongst our “adoptive parents”, has just become a mother. On March 2, 2011, little Jossy—who was between 1 and 2 years old at the time—arrived at the Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation center. At first, she was an insecure orangutan, but she has developed […]
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Marie Sigvardt is the new director of Save the Orangutan On October 1, 2024, Marie Sigvardt, former head of programs for Save the Orangutan, was appointed as the organisation’s new director. Marie Sigvardt, who has served as the acting director since April, succeeds Hanne Gürtler, who has retired. Marie Sigvardt has […]
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Over the next two weeks, representatives from around the world will meet to follow up on the international biodiversity goals. Every year, the UN’s annual climate conference receives significant media attention, and it will undoubtedly do so again this November. However, there is another equally as important UN conference that […]
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The orangutan baby Rumba was kept as a pet for a month before coming to the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Centre. In 2022, several young, orphaned orangutans were rescued and moved to the rehabilitation centres Nyaru Menteng and Samboja Lestari. One of them was Rumba, who was less than a year […]
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How do you highten the awareness of children to the troublesome state of the forest and Nature that surrounds them? One way is to draw… solutions. People that reside in close vicinity to the Borneo rainforest play a major role in protecting it. Especially young people have great potential […]
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The UN climate panel IPCC has released its latest climate report summarizing the last nine years of research. The situation is, as expected, very serious. The report is based on 14,000 research reports and the work of hundreds of thousands researchers. It clearly shows how global warming is progressing at […]
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In our large-scale reforestation project in Mawas in Borneo, it is the local population that does the majority of the work. Here you can meet some of them. Since 1997 Sumadi has been planting trees in the Mawas area in Borneo. In spring he collects seedlings in the rainforest, plants […]
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It is quite unique amongst mammals to be able to quickly mirror the facial expressions of their own kind. Up until 2017 we did not know that other animal species than humans could signal to one other using facial expressions. Then a study, made by researchers from Germany and England, […]
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The Post-release Monitoring (PRM) teams that keep an eye on the orangutans in the rainforest learn many things from observing them. For example, they find out which fruits or leaves they can eat in the rainforest. We can learn so much from orangutans. The PRM teams that observes the released […]
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Two weeks ago, eight orangutans were moved to a Pre-release Island where they now will have to prove that they are able to survive as wild orangutans. Once the baby orangutans at the Rehabilitation Centres have made it through all the stages of Forest School it is time for the […]
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