OFF TO ‘UNIVERSITY’
While one of our teams was busy transporting four orangutans back to the wild recently, we also released four graduated forest school students to a pre-release island in the Salat Island Cluster. Pre-release islands are like universities, where graduates hone their...
Encroachment threatens OU conservation in new capital area
One way to monitor and protect wildlife is through data collection via surveys or censuses. As The plan to develop the new capital city (IKN) of Nusantara which was launched by the Indonesian government has become a hot discussion topic on a national and international...
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Saving orangutans also means protecting their rainforest homes and fighting climate change. To reduce our carbon footprint, BOS Australia and BOS Switzerland, together with the BOS Foundation, built a new solar system at our Samboja Lestari rehabilitation centre...
DILLA IS FINDING HER WAY
We have an update on Dilla. She is one of our unreleasable orangutans, and she became famous in the documentary series ‘Orangutan Jungle School’. While all orangutans in BOS Foundation’s care have a tragic backstory, Dilla had a particularly rough...
CHECKING IN WITH OUR LATEST RESCUES
Every year, the BOS Foundation’s two Orangutan Rehabilitation Centres – Nyaru Menteng and Samboja Lestari – take in rescued, orphaned orangutans. They must undergo a lengthy rehabilitation process before we can release them into a secure, natural...
