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The latest news right here at Borneo Orangutan Survival
HANUNG MOVES HOUSE
Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team recently translocated Hanung, who the BOS Foundation released to the Kehje Sewen Forest in 2016. Find out...
ORANGUTAN WARRIOR: NUR SYAMSIAH
It has been some time since we brought you a new Orangutan Warrior profile. This time, we'd like to introduce you to one of the inspiring women who...
HOW DO ORANGUTANS ‘TALK’?
Orangutans are semi-solitary primates who spend the majority of their lives alone. However, in some orangutan populations, the females will gather...
MYSTERIOUS NEIGHBOURS
Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team recently searched for orangutans at Puncak Leke in the Kehje Sewen Forest when they caught sight of an...
JUNGLE SHARPSHOOTERS TAKE AIM
One of the skills the Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team members learn when working in the Kehje Sewen Forest is the ability to fire a tranquilliser...
ORANGUTAN RESCUE AT MUARA TOYU
On 6 December 2022, the Balikpapan BKSDA received a report from an employee of PT. Balikpapan Wana Lestari (BWL) that an orangutan had visited the...
BUNGARAN STARTS HIS OWN ADVENTURES
One morning, a Post-Release Monitoring team made up of members Pel, Emen and Jeje, along with our veterinarian, Dr Made, went on patrol along...
LITTLE IQO’S STORY
On 3 November 2022, a resident of Tumbang Kajamei village in Central Kalimantan travelled for four hours by motorcycle to hand over baby orangutan...
AN OPEN INVITATION FOR A SECOND CHANCE
We at BOS have played a part in changing the lives of thousands of orangutans in Indonesia. Our job is not one we have taken on eagerly, but...
A NEW BABY!
The Kehje Sewen Forest has welcomed a new resident. Following confirmation from our veterinarian in October last year that Lesan was pregnant, we...
UNEXPECTED VISITORS
Do you remember Inung and Indie? The Post-Release Monitoring team recently spotted the mother-infant pair near Camp Totat Jalu in the Bukit Batikap...
BIRTH CONTROL FOR ORANGUTANS
The BOS Foundation is on a mission to release as many ready orangutans as possible from its two rehabilitation centres into the wild, where they can...
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