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MELISA IS BACK—WITH A BABY ON HER BACK!
Released in 2019, Melisa has been recently spotted again – with a new baby!
MELISA IS BACK—WITH A BABY ON HER BACK!
Released in 2019, Melisa has been recently spotted again – with a new baby!
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A NEW LIFE IN THE BATIKAP FOREST: INUNG, INDIE, AND THE BIRTH OF INDRO
In 2024, our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team in the Bukit Batikap Protected...
YOUNG ORANGUTANS’ JOURNEY AT FOREST SCHOOL
At the end of 2024, Baimah and Feruza finally advanced to Forest School Level...
YUYUN: JOURNEY TO RECOVERY AND A NEW HOME ON THE ISLAND
Yuyun is an orangutan who has lived on Island #0 at Samboja Lestari for a long...
RELOCATION OF THE CENTRE AT NYARU MENTENG: A STEP TOWARDS BETTER CONSERVATION
As part of the commitment to implementing animal welfare principles, the Nyaru...
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FIVE MORE ORANGUTANS HAVE ARRIVED IN THE KEHJE SEWEN FOREST
Together, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), the East Kalimantan Conservation and Natural Resources Agency (BKSDA), and the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation have successfully released five rehabilitated orangutans into the Kehje Sewen Forest...
A MESSAGE FROM THE KEHJE SEWEN FOREST
Camp Nles Mamse, located in the Kehje Sewen Forest, is surrounded by the beauty of nature and unique flora and fauna. Our Post-Release Monitoring teams regularly encounter exotic animals, like monitor lizards (Varanus salvator), binturongs (Arctictis binturong),...
MEET THE CANDIDATES FOR OUR FIRST RELEASE OF 2023
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia (KLHK), with the Natural Resources Conservation Center (BKSDA) of East Kalimantan, assisted by the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation conducts its 25th orangutan release from Samboja Lestari...
VOTE FOR KOPRAL’S FEATURED PICTURE FOR HIS PORTRAIT BY ANDY GILPIN
Thanks to all your voting, we have a winner to be featured in an Andy Gilpin portrait: Kopral! Now we need your help again. Kopral did not have an easy start to his life, as he sustained injuries that led to the amputation of his arms. Because of those injuries,...
SAYANG BRINGS NEW HOPE
In recent months, Sayang has not appeared around Camp Lesik in the Kehje Sewen Forest. Unlike before, when our team often saw the families of Sayang and Lesan spending time together around the camp, they only spotted Lesan and her two offspring in the area. What...
BEN IS MAKING HIMSELF AT HOME
Do you remember Ben, the 500th orangutan the BOS Foundation released in November 2022? Our Post Release Monitoring team recently spotted him in his new forest home. Find out how he is doing! One morning, the Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team in the Bukit Baka Bukit...
VOTE FOR THE NEXT FEATURED ADOPTABLE ORANGUTAN PORTRAIT BY ANDY GILPIN
Would you like your favourite adoptable BOS orangutan to be immortalized in a one-of-a-kind painting? Longtime supporter and painter extraordinaire at artist4apes, Andy Gilpin, has graciously decided to make his next orangutan portrait a fan-fave adoptee! Andy has...
MYSTERY ORANGUTAN VISITS CAMP LESIK
Camp Lesik has had a new visitor. The Post Release Monitoring (PRM) team recently observed an orangutan off the back of the camp. While we don’t yet know who this individual is, we can be certain that this visitor is a rehabilitated orangutan, as there is a visible...
GALAKSI TAKES A BREAK FROM FOREST SCHOOL
Samboja Lestari's Forest School has one less student for the time being, as little Galaksi has been removed from the group's activities due to a fracture in his leg. Find out what happened to him. Galaksi was actively playing in Forest School with pals Feruza, Baimah,...
PROPER SNAKE HANDLING
The BOS Foundation recently collaborated with the Indonesian Snake Sioux Foundation to provide snake-handling training for the Post Release Monitoring (PRM) team members. As a result, the team's perceptions of snakes changed. Snakes will either spark curiosity or fear...
GONE WITH GONZALES IN THE FOREST
Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team in the Hiran watershed recently observed Gonzales, a male orangutan the BOS Foundation team released in November 2022 in the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR). What was he up to? A two-person PRM team, consisting of...
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 why. In addition to releasing and monitoring orangutans in the forest, the PRM team also translocates orangutans when...
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