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First Release for 2020: Three Orangutans Returned to Forest
Starting the new year with new hope, BOS Foundation has released three more rehabilitated orangutans from the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre to the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park...
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New Year, New Class! Part 2
The new year is off to a good start for many of our Forest School students, with four of our baby orangutans at the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre being promoted to the next stage of...
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Orangutan Warrior #1 – Hanni
Established in 1991, the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation has remained true to its initial call and cause to this day, focusing on the ‘conservation of the Bornean orangutan and its habitat,...
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The First Baby Orangutan Rescue of 2020
A joint team from the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation and the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) recently rescued another baby orangutan. This time, the joint...
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RELEASE CANDIDATE PROFILES FOR THE 35th ORANGUTAN RELEASE FROM NYARU MENTENG...
1. Batola Batola was rescued in the city of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, and arrived at Nyaru Menteng on 19 December, 2007. He was five years old at the time and weighed 19 kilograms. Following...
View Article[PRESS RELEASE] Orangutan Release and Inauguration of ‘Lewun Kahio’...
Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan, 19 February, 2020. The Directorate of Biodiversity Conservation, the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR) Authority, and the Central Kalimantan Natural...
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New Monitoring Camp in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park
Last week, the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation teamed up with the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), and the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR)...
View Article[PRESS RELEASE] Alba, the Albino Orangutan, Thrives in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya...
Jakarta, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), Friday, 28 February 2020 – The Directorate of Biodiversity Conservation (KKH), the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR) Authority, and the...
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The Latest Update on Jeffrey!
Do you remember Jeffrey? He was undergoing rehabilitation at the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, on Pre-Release Island #7, when the veterinary team discovered that he was suffering...
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Three Rescued Babies Doing Well
Late last year, the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation rescued baby orangutans, Monyo, Niniek, and Hanua. Despite coming from different regions in Central Kalimantan, the three have managed to...
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The Latest from Our Rehabilitation Centres
Two weeks ago, the BOS Foundation closed both of its orangutan rehabilitation centres to the public due to the current global pandemic. Behind the closed gates, however, rehabilitation activities are...
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PRM Team Still Busy in the Forest
It has been three weeks since the BOS Foundation closed its orangutan rehabilitation centres to the public in East and Central Kalimantan, as well as its release sites in the Kehje Sewen Forest (East...
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Orangutan Warrior #2 – Imam Ghozali
Today, we would like to share another story about one of our orangutan warriors from the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in East Kalimantan. This tough man has dedicated his life to the...
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Kisar in Paradise
It was 4:00 am when we left camp. Darkness still cloaked the primeval forest with only the faint silhouette of ancient trees and their host of epiphytes and lianas visible. The river was shrouded in an...
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‘Unreleasable’ Orangutans
At our orangutan rehabilitation centres, we continue to prepare hundreds of rescued orangutans for release to natural forests where they can live wild and free. The long rehabilitation process is...
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Vista, A Model Mother
In March, a Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) technician from the Lewun Kahiyo Orangutan Monitoring Post – in the Bemban watershed of the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park – and I went in search of...
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Kopral is Now Living on an Island!
Who could forget Kopral, the armless male orangutan who ‘ruled’ over Forest School Group 2 for quite some time. At the end of February, it was decided that Kopral should be given the opportunity to...
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BOSF Comdev Team Still Active Amid Pandemic
Last week, we brought you the story of our hard-working community development (comdev) team from the Orangutan Habitat Restoration (RHO) program in Muara Wahau, East Kalimantan. The team’s counterpart...
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Orangutans Caught on Camera in Batikap!
Late last year our team in the Bukit Batikap Protection Forest embarked on the first phase of a new collaborative research study using camera traps and we are excited to share some of the early images...
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A Muddy Memory
Being a part of the BOS Foundation team certainly has it challenges. However, our dedicated surrogate mothers end every long, muddy, and sweaty day with new, fond memories of orangutan antics. As Dessi...
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