Orangutans are extremely intelligent animals and the literal translation of their name is “person of the forest”. Their rainforest habitat is continuously being destroyed at an alarming rate by illegal logging

Released formerly captive orangutans, near Camp Rasak, Lamandau Wildlife Reserve, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. From a March 2009 trip with writer William deBuys traveling to Indonesian Borneo (Central Kalimantan, Indonesia) to visit with NGOs Yayorin and Orangutan Foundation UK to explore the social and environmental dynamics of forest conservation in and around the Lamandau Wildlife Reserve. The LWR is a release site for the Bornean Orangutans, the central area for an upcoming…

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Jelapat was being kept in a village in Central Kalimantan when BOS Foundation discovered him at the age of 1.5 years in June 2016. A resident had found him six months earlier, alone and weak, by a riverbank. Forest fires had devastated the area at the time, and sadly we believe his mother had either... View Article

Topan was eight months old when she arrived at our Nyaru Menteng sanctuary. Local villagers had found her weak and alone by a riverbank. The BOS medical team was extremely concerned about Topan’s health, weighing only 1.5 kilograms and suffering severe dehydration and malnutrition. Topan spent the first days in intensive care, but thanks to... View Article

Photographic Print: Borneo Orangutan Family with a Baby (Pongo Pygmaeus) Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan by Thomas Marent : 24x18in

Photographic Print: Male Borneo Orangutan (Pongo Pygmaeus), Camp Leaky, Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan by Thomas Marent : 24x18in

Taymur arrived at our Nyaru Menteng sanctuary at the age of two, in September 2017. As a baby, he was illegally smuggled to Kuwait and kept as a pet. Local authorities discovered him, and the Indonesian Embassy, together with the Kuwait Zoo, launched an operation to return him to Borneo. After two months of planning... View Article

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