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ANOTHER BABY SUN BEAR ARRIVES AT SAMBOJA LESTARI
A new baby sun bear has been rescued!
ANOTHER BABY SUN BEAR ARRIVES AT SAMBOJA LESTARI
A new baby sun bear has been rescued!
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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...
A GRASSY ADVENTURE WITH THE CHEEKY ORANGUTANS AT NYARU MENTENG
Welcome to another thrilling day at the Nyaru Menteng Forest School! Today,...
HOW DO ORANGUTANS LEARN THROUGH PLAY?
Every young orangutan is always on the lookout for their next big adventure!...
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A HIGH-STAKES FIRST DATE
On Saturday, November 12, a small caravan carrying some very special cargo departed from the BOS Foundation’s Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Central Kalimantan. The teams started the day as the sun rose with a swab of their noses to check for...
“LONG OVERDUE AND MUCH-NEEDED”
Recently the U.S. Senate passed the Big Cat Public Safety Act. The new law revises requirements governing the trade of big cats like tigers, lions or leopards. Specifically, it changes restrictions on the possession and exhibition of big cats, including restricting...
SUJA & BELLA’S ROAD TO FREEDOM
As BOS-UK is proud to present our upcoming premiere event of Eyes of the Orangutan, it’s an important time to look back on some of the orangutans who have been directly affected by modern wildlife tourism. In 2006 at four years of age, Suja was repatriated from...
500 ORANGUTANS RELEASED!
The BOS Foundation has successfully released 500 orangutans in the decade since the releases restarted in February 2012. Our latest release journey began in the evening when swabs were used to collect samples from team members to ensure that nobody was infected with...
SUN BEAR STORY: ADELE
Adele is a female sun bear who was first discovered by employees of PT. Inhutani in Long Nah, East Kutai Regency. At the time of her rescue, she was only about a month old, with her eyes still closed. Adele, previously known as ‘Popo’, was cared for by the Tenggarong...
TEMON OVERCOMING HER TRAUMA
This year, our Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre has taken in several traumatised, orphaned orangutans, including the young female Temon. Together with the Central Kalimantan BKSDA, the BOS team helped rescue Temon on June 8 after receiving word she had...
WHO WILL BE NUMBER 500?
While we are preparing for the release of the 500th orangutan, please get to know the lucky ones that will enjoy their well-deserved freedom soon. BENBen was born in a clinic at the BOS Foundation’s Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre on May 20, 2010. Sadly,...
THE NOT-SO-SIMPLE TASK OF RELEASING ORANGUTANS
The culmination of an orangutan’s rehabilitation journey is the release of that orangutan into a protected natural habitat. Reintroduction is a long process that encompasses education in Forest School and putting skills into practice on a pre-release island, all in...
ANOTHER RESCUE
The BOS Foundation’s Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre recently took in another baby orangutan from the BKSDA Regional Conservation Division (SKW) II of Tenggarong. The BOS team - consisting of a veterinarian, surrogate mother, and communications staff...
CHALLENGING FOREST LIFE
Working far away from urban areas has its unique challenges, as our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team from Camp Lesik in the Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan, can attest. Something the technicians regularly experience is running out of supplies and materials,...
WHERE ARE YOU, BUMI?
It was another happy day at Nyaru Menteng's Forest School, with the Group 4 students located near the wooden bridge used to access the area on foot. In the space beneath the bridge, where thick vegetation covers the forest floor, curious Bumi found a space to lie down...
THREE NEW ARRIVALS, THREE MORE CHANCES FOR FREEDOM
The BOS Foundation recently received three orphaned baby orangutans - two males and a female - all in the same month. After passing the compulsory quarantine period, the trio joined Forest School with other youngsters their age: Segi joined the small nursery group,...
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