Christmas is right around the corner and so is the time to enjoy all kinds of Christmas sweets. Did you know that half of all products in a regular supermarket contain palm oil? This includes the sweets we often have for Christmas. Palm oil is a vegetable oil extracted from […]
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During the last weeks of the year, one of the biggest efforts in 2019 has been carried out: 17 rehabilitated orangutans have recently been released back to the wild. All orangutans have undergone a long rehabilitation process at the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Centre, where they’ve learned to survive as wild […]
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Garu – who was born at the pre-release island – is now an independent orangutan who cares for her mother and little sister. All three were recently observed in the rainforest. Our Indonesian partner BOS Foundation does regular post-release monitoring rounds out in the rainforest to make sure the released […]
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Orphaned orangutan Alejandra was rescued in the village of Tapen in Central Kalimantan in Borneo by the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) and BOS Foundation. She was brought to Nyaru Menteng on 22 December 2017. Back when Alejandra was rescued she was only 3 months old, weak and […]
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Eight orangutans have been returned to the wild in the protected rainforest Bukit Batikap in Borneo. When orphaned orangutans are brought to the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Centre, the orangutans go through a long rehabilitation process. After forest school, they are moved to the pre-release islands. Here they live on their […]
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When male orangutan Sapat was rescued and brought to intensive care, a large number of bullets were found lodged beneath his skin. The forest fires that have ravaged in Borneo recently have most likely forced him away from his natural habitat. In late September, the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation […]
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Returning rehabilitated orangutans to the wild is a difficult and demanding process. Last week, the turn finally came to Arman, Marlies, Randy and Sumirah to return to the wild in the protected rainforest Kehje Sewen. Here you can read about their final journey to freedom. The 500-kilometer-long trip from the […]
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The United Nation’s Climate Action Summit 2019 was held at the UN headquarters in New York during this week from 21st-23rd of September. Already on Friday, 20th of September, a global climate strike was organized where millions of young people globally participated to express their concern about the climate and […]
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Since being released in the Kehje Sewen forest in August, Febri and the three other orangutans has had to adapt to an independent life in the wild. The post-release monitoring team from the Nles Mamse camp began observing the newly arrived orangutans immediately after the release, as they always do […]
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On 27 August 2019, Save the Orangutan’s partner BOS Foundation released four rehabilitated orangutans to the Kehje Sewen rainforest in East Kalimantan on Borneo. Soon after the transport cages were opened, the orangutans rushed up into the trees and the post-monitoring team began to discreetly observe the newly arrived residents. […]
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