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A NEW ARRIVAL AT NYARU MENTENG ORANGUTAN REHABILITATION CENTRE
Nia, an infant orangutan, is BOSF’s newest rescue
A NEW ARRIVAL AT NYARU MENTENG ORANGUTAN REHABILITATION CENTRE
Nia, an infant orangutan, is BOSF’s newest rescue
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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...
THE RETURN OF MENTOS: A MOTHER’S JOURNEY IN BUKIT BATIKAP
At the end of 2024, our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team encountered an old...
THE MAMMOTH PROBLEM: WHY ORANGUTANS NEED OUR HELP NOW
Orangutans are facing a mammoth problem. One that threatens not only their...
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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 has been a part of our Orangutan Habitat Rehabilitation (RHO) programme in East Kalimantan since 2016. Nur Syamsiah is a...
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 in groups from time to time, especially during the fruiting season, when forest food is abundant. Group activity like...
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 unidentified animal. They took a closer look at the curious creature and noticed it was rolled up with its head tucked into...
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 gun. All of them must possess this skill to support the veterinarians if they need to anaesthetise an orangutan in the...
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 workers' camp and interacted with staff over four consecutive days. According to the statement, the orangutan was...
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 Transect #9. Suddenly, they spotted a male orangutan. Who was it? It turned out to be Bungaran, a young orangutan entering his...
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 Iqo to the BOS Foundation team. When the little female arrived at our Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, she...
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 together with the government of Indonesia, we must act to save orangutans from extinction. We would be overjoyed to be out of...
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 are thrilled to announce that she has since given birth. Lesan was seen last around Camp Lesik at the end of 2022 with an...
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 Protection Forest, Central Kalimantan. Inung and Indie were observed foraging for cassava and guava. Despite getting...
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 breed naturally in the forest. However, while in a centre, female orangutans are fitted with birth control implants to...
AYU IS GOING TO BE A BIG SISTER!
Who could forget sweet Ayu, the daughter of Lesan and, probably, Hamzah, who was born in the Kehje Sewen Forest in 2016? Just as she is developing new skills and showing more positive progress, we have news that Ayu will soon become a big sister! This comes after our...
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