At the end of January, a small baby orangutan was rescued and taken to the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Centre. The rescued male orangutan has received treatment and is currently in quarantine. A joint team from our Indonesian partner BOS Foundation and the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) recently […]

A male and two female orangutans were released last week in the TNBBBR National Park, after years of rehabilitation. For the first time in 2020, three rehabilitated orangutans have been released into the wild. As always, these orangutans have been rescued and rehabilitated at the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Centre. Here, […]

Closing the year on a high note, Save the Orangutan’s partner BOS Foundation released another 9 rehabilitated orangutans. Furthermore, two wild orangutans have been translocated to safety. The cages were opened one final time in 2019 and 11 orangutans rushed out and eagerly climbed up the nearest trees. This marked […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

402 orangutans. That is the total number of orangutans Save the Orangutan’s Indonesian partner BOS Foundation have released to free and natural surroundings come the end of this week. Meet the four orangutans who have embarked on their journey from the rehabilitation centre to the release site in Kehje Sewen […]

Six orangutans have recently been re-granted their freedom in East Kalimantan, bringing the total number of released orangutans in the Kehje Sewen forest to 103 since 2012. However, there is a limit to how many orangutans can make the protected area their home. Permission to expand the area is now […]