Iqo, Monita and all the other orangutans at the rehabilitation centre will be moved to a new Nyaru Menteng, where new updated facilities will be built. The area in which the old Nyaru Menteng is located is to be used for ecotourism. Big things are happening at Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation […]

Save the Orangutan has been approved as a program organization of Civil Society in Development (CISU) by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This also means an important grant of DKK 15.3 million for the work on Borneo. Together with the local partner organizations BOS Foundation and Borneo Nature Foundation, […]

Despite not seeing each other for as long as 26 years, great apes remember friends and acquaintances from the past. This is revealed in a recently published international study. In the study, chimpanzees and bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) from different zoos were given the opportunity to look at pictures of conspecifics. It turned out […]

A wild male orangutan had to be captured and relocated when he got too close to a village. An incident that gave rise to both fear and curiosity among the villagers. It was in September 2023 that a wild male orangutan approached a village in Borneo. When orangutans do this, it […]

Where do Ben, Miko and Nody live now? Well, they reside in the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR). Learn more about this safe haven for rehabilitated orangutans. When orphaned orangutans have completed a long rehabilitation process, they are ready for the finale; to be released in the wild where they […]

The orangutan is critically endangered but continues to be killed in Borneo. However, the work that Save the Orangutan and other organizations are doing brings hope for the future. A recent study highlighted by The Guardian shows that although it is both taboo and criminal to kill orangutans, it occurred […]

The monitoring team in the Bukit Batikap forest recently witnessed something very special: They caught sight of the released orangutan Daisy with a small baby. Daisy was released in Bukit Batikap back in 2012 – the very first year that our partner organization BOS Foundation started releasing rehabilitated orangutans into […]

Otong, Peanut and Priska have moved to a pre-release island – the last stage of the rehabilitation process. The pre-release island is a place where the orangutans test their abilities in natural surroundings before they are finally released back into the rainforest. The relocation team, consisting of medical staff, technicians as well […]

Thanks to CISU-funded projects, the indigenous people of Rungan have been granted legal status as guardians of the forest. This will protect the area from exploitation and preserve the home of the wild orangutan. Rungan is a remote natural area in southern Borneo with great biodiversity. One example of this […]

Kejora was illegally kept as a pet before she was rescued and came to the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation Center. Recently, she and nine other orangutans were reintroduced into the rainforest. It was in 2016 that the 1,5 year old Kejora was rescued from an oil palm plantation where she had […]