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BOS Foundation Release Twelve Orangutans to BBBR-NP Including Two Repatriated...
#Orangutanfreedom is still going strong and we have just released another 12 orangutans to the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (BBBR-NP) in Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan. This release...
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Friendship in the Forest: The Story of Belinda, Long and Arief
On Tuesday morning, three of our PRM team from Camp Nles Mamse – Luy, Cohel and Valerie – headed toward the phenology transect 2 in search of Belinda, a female orangutan we released in July this year....
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Robert and Ajeng: Potential New Match in the Kehje Sewen?
As the wet season settles in, rain falls daily on the Kehje Sewen Forest. Bright morning skies turn gloomy in the afternoon bringing showers that persist until late into the night. But despite the...
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Expectant Mothers Meklies, Ebol Getting Ready to Give Birth!
We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of new orangutan family members in the Bukit Batikap Conservation Forest (Batikap). In August, our team discovered that two of our released orangutans – Meklies...
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Seven More Orangutans Enter ‘University’
We are moving full steam ahead with our reintroduction programs and at our new release site in Central Kalimantan in the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, we have already released 71 orangutans...
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King of Kehje Sewen Makes an Appearance
Our PRM team to the south of Camp Nles Mamse was recently delighted to pick up Kumar’s radio tracking signal! The team was busily conducting post-release monitoring in the Simpang Tawon area of the...
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SAMBOJA LESTARI 14TH ORANGUTAN RELEASE CANDIDATE PROFILES
#OrangutanFreedom is still going strong and we are getting ready to release 5 orangutans into the Kehje Sewen Forest in East Kutai Regency. Here are the profiles of the amazing orangutans who are about...
View Article[PRESS RELEASE] BOS Foundation Releases More Orangutans to Kehje Sewen Forest...
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, in cooperation with the East Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), will release five more orangutans from the Samboja Lestari Orangutan...
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Santa’s December Homecoming
Celebrating World Wildlife Conservation Day and our #OrangutanFreedom campaign, together with the East Kalimantan BKSDA, we are delighted to have released another five orangutans from the BOS...
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Island Freedom for Papa!
Papa was repatriated from Taiwan and arrived at our rehabilitation centre- Samboja Lestari on September 1, 1994, at the age of five. Unfortunately, as was the case with Romeo (read Romeo’s story...
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NYARU MENTENG 20th ORANGUTAN RELEASE CANDIDATE PROFILES
1. JAKI Jaki was rescued from a villager in Kereng Pangi, Katingan District, Central Kalimantan. He arrived at Nyaru Menteng on March 8, 2000, aged around 4 years and weighing 12 kilograms. In October...
View Article[PRESS RELEASE] BOS Foundation Farewells 2017 with Orangutan Release from...
The BOS Foundation, in collaboration with the Directorate of Biodiversity Conservation of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KKH-KLHK) is releasing eight orangutans from the Nyaru Menteng...
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BOSF Farewells 2017 with Release of Eight Orangutans
#OrangutanFreedom As the year comes to an end, the BOS Foundation is still working full steam ahead on its #OrangutanFreedom campaign. With 2017 marked as “The Year of Freedom for Orangutans”, the BOS...
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Awesome Teamwork For A Successful Release!
Releasing orangutans to their natural habitat follows a very long and intense rehabilitation process. Rehabilitated orangutans must have mastered many different wild skills before they can be...
View ArticleA Mother’s Day Salute to Our Babysitters
In Indonesia, Mother’s Day falls annually on December 22 – a day when we celebrate our mothers, and express our deep gratitude for their unconditional love, care, and support. On this day, we should...
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One Week Post-Rescue, Alejandra and Rachel Doing Well
We are happy to report that the two female baby orangutans we rescued last weekend are gaining strength and recovering well. Alejandra Alejandra was rescued on December 22, and came to our centre a...
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Ung: Ninja of the Kehje Sewen
Every day our post-release monitoring teams based in the forest work hard to observe and record behavioural data on the orangutans we have reintroduced. Last week, our team at Nles Mamse Camp prepared...
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30 Days Search of Orangutans
Post-Release Successfully releasing orangutans is a lot more complicated than simply opening cage doors and setting orangutans free in the forest. Preparing orangutans prior to their release can take...
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NYARU MENTENG 21th ORANGUTAN RELEASE CANDIDATE PROFILES
1. PONG Pong was confiscated from a villager in Tumbang Samba, Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan, on August 24, 2005. The villager claimed to have bought Pong four months prior from an oil palm...
View Article[PRESS RELEASE] First Release for 2018 to Celebrate World One Million Tree Day
This release will be the 8th conducted in the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (BBBR-NP) by the BOS Foundation, in coordination with the Central Kalimantan BKSDA, the BBBR-NP office, and USAID...
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