March 23, 2022
Big Boy Beni Says Thank You!
Thank you for supporting Beni on his journey! We have some truly wonderful and BIG news to share with you! Thanks to the support… more…
Blog Archives
March 17, 2022
A Long Journey Ahead for Valentino
Date Posted March 17, 2022 Text by: BOSF Communications Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan Last November, our pre-release islands in the Salat Island Cluster… more…
March 14, 2022
Released Orangutan Erina Makes an Appearance
Text by: BOS Foundation PRM Team at Camp Nles Mamse, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan Date Posted: March 14, 2022 One of the tasks of… more…
March 2, 2022
Orangutans Love to ‘Party’
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team in Bogor HQ, West Java, Indonesia Date Posted March 3, 2022 Orangutans are absolutely fascinating to observe. If you… more…
February 23, 2022
BOS Foundation: Mawas Conservation Program
Text by: BOS Foundation Communications Team in Bogor HQ, West Java Date Posted: February 23, 2022 The Mawas Conservation Program is a Borneo Orangutan Survival… more…
February 23, 2022
Taste-Testing Orangutan Food!
Leony munching on some delicious rattan. Text by: BOS Foundation Communications Team in Bogor HQ, West Java Date Posted: Feb 23, 2022 Observing orangutans and… more…
February 16, 2022
Meet Alfa & Kirun, Two Beloved Unreleasable Orangutans
Text by: BOSF Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan Posted February 16, 2022 The process of orangutan rehabilitation does not always produce the desired… more…
February 15, 2022
The Early Bird Catches the Fruit
Text by: BOSF PRM Team in Camp Lesik, East Kalimantan Posted February 15, 2022 Life in our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) camps is vastly different from… more…
February 9, 2022
Beat-Up Beni Bounces Back
Text by: Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan Posted: February 9 2022 Beni, Orangutan Jungle School superstar and internationally beloved orangutan, is facing his… more…
February 8, 2022
BOSF: Photos from the 38th Orangutan Release
Text by: BOSF Communications Team, Bogor, Indonesia Posted February 8, 2021 2021 ended on a high note for the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. A collaborative… more…
February 8, 2022
Released Orangutan Mother-Daughter Pair Make an Appearance
Text by: BOSF PRM Team in Camp Lesik, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan Posted February 8, 2022 Locating released orangutans in the forest for behavioural… more…
February 2, 2022
Orangutans: Barking Up the Right Tree!
Text by: BOSF PRM team from Nles Mamse Camp, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan Date Posted: Feb 2, 2022 As a frugivore, or fruit eater,… more…
February 2, 2022
Lunch Date in the Canopy
Date Posted 02/02/2022 Text by: BOSF PRM Team in TNBBBR, Central Kalimantan Walking through the forest for hours on end in search of orangutans is… more…
January 25, 2022
Meeting Old Orangutan friends in the Forest
Text by: BOSF PRM Team at Camp Lesik, Kehje Sewen Forest, Kalimantan Timur Posted January, 25, 2022 Meeting Again in Kehje Sewen One of the… more…
January 24, 2022
Orangutan Besties Desi and Kimi— Take 2
Posted: Jan 24, 2022 Text by BOSF Post-Release Monitoring Team of Juq Kehje Swen, East Kalimantan Kimi Crashes Observations Observing orangutans on pre-release islands involves… more…
January 13, 2022
Meryl Graduates from Forest School!
ANNOUNCING OUR NEWEST FOREST SCHOOL GRADUATE! WISHING ALL THE BEST TO SWEET MERYL! January 2022 — Another beloved orangutan from the Orangutan Outreach adoption program… more…
January 11, 2022
Mona’s Back!
JANUARY 10, 2022 Text by BOSF PRM Team at Lesik Camp, East Kalimantan It’s always nice to catch up with orangutans in the forest who… more…
January 4, 2022
Meet Orangutans Desi and Kimi
Date Posted January 3, 2022 Text by: BOSF Monitoring Team in Juq Kehje Sewen, East Kalimantan Friendships always have their ups and downs. Interestingly, this… more…
December 23, 2021
Sayang is an Awesome Mother!
Date Posted: Dec 23, 2021 Text by: BOS Foundation PRM Team in Camp Lesik, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan A mother’s love for her child… more…
December 17, 2021
BOSF: Release Candidate Profiles for the 38th Orangutan Release
Learn more about the BOS Foundation’s Orangutan Release Program Date Posted: December 17, 2021 RELEASE CANDIDATE PROFILES FOR THE 38th ORANGUTAN RELEASE FROM THE BOS… more…
December 2, 2021
A Future for Unreleasable Orangutans
Date Posted 12/2/2021 Text by: BOS Foundation Communications Team, Bogor, Indonesia Not all orangutans in rehabilitation centers are able to successfully complete the rehabilitation process… more…
November 22, 2021
Kejora Gets A New Start
Date Posted 17/11/2021 Text by: Nicola Walpen, BOSF Communications and Campaign Officer At only 1.5 years old, little Kejora had already experienced more pain than… more…
November 14, 2021
BOSF: Nyiwuh Needs Her Space!
Date Posted 11/14/2021 Text by: BOS Foundation PRM Team from TNBBBR, Central Kalimantan It is only natural for rehabilitated orangutans, who have been released in… more…
November 14, 2021
A Feast in the Forest
Date Posted 11/14/2021 Text by: BOSF PRM Team in TNBBBR, Central Kalimantan Who says parties only occur in cities and urban areas: In the forest,… more…
November 12, 2021
NEW BENI VIDEOS!
Beni’s Future is Bright In 2019 Beni graduated from forest school after learning the skills that will support him on his journey back to… more…
October 28, 2021
Meet Beautiful Orangutan Ewa
Date Posted Oct 28, 2021 Text by: PRM Team in TNBBBR, Central Kalimantan When monitoring hundreds of orangutans across a vast forest, our Post-Release Monitoring… more…
October 19, 2021
Working in the Forest is a Total Rush!
Text by: PRM Team in Camp Nles Mamse, East Kalimantan Posted: Oct 19, 2021 Who says you can’t find action in the middle of the… more…
October 16, 2021
Forest Survival 101: Lessons from Orangutans
Date Posted October 16, 2021 Text by: Monitoring Team in Juq Kehje Swen, East Kalimantan We can learn SO MUCH from orangutans – like, how… more…
October 8, 2021
BOSF: Janu and Susi’s Relationship Blooms
Date Posted: 06/10/2021 Text by: BOSF Post Release Monitoring Team in TNBBBR, Central Kalimantan In the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, Central Kalimantan, we,… more…
October 1, 2021
Protect Orangutans! Demand sustainable, deforestation-free palm oil!
Orangutan Outreach has joined forces with nearly 100 other conservation organizations who are committed to driving the palm oil industry in the right direction, and… more…
September 29, 2021
Orangutans Miri and Jaka Feast on Sankguang Fruit
Date Posted: September 29, 2021 Text by: PRM team in TNBBBR, Central Kalimantan SANGKUANG, THE FRUIT THAT BRINGS ORANGUTANS TOGETHER A wide variety of different… more…
September 8, 2021
BOS Samboja: Another Baby Orangutan Rescued
Date Posted September 8, 2021 Text by: BOSF Communication team in Samboja Lestari, East Kalimantan Just after midnight on 9 August, the wildlife rescue team… more…
September 8, 2021
BOS Nyaru Menteng: New Forest School Students are Making Progress
Date Posted: September 8, 2021 Text by: BOSF Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan It is always interesting to take a look at the… more…
September 7, 2021
BOSF: Orangutans Hamzah and Bong Part Ways
Text by: BOSF PRM Team at Camp Lesik, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan Date: Sept 6, 2021 Early one morning in March, our BOSF Post-Release… more…
August 25, 2021
BOSF: Long-Awaited Eye Surgery for Jeje
Date Posted: August 25, 2021 Text by: Communication Team in BOS Samboja Lestari, East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) Most of the orangutans that end up at… more…
August 23, 2021
BOSF: Meet Sayang and Her Beautiful Baby Padma
Text by: BOSF PRM Team in Camp Lesik, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan Date posted: Aug 23, 2021 Orangutan mothers, like their human counterparts, are… more…
August 12, 2021
International Orangutan Day 2021
Watch the Full Video! INTERNATIONAL ORANGUTAN DAY is August 19th! Keep an eye on the Orangutan Outreach Facebook page on August 19th as we talk… more…
August 12, 2021
2021 Virtual Apes in the Arts Fundraiser
Our friends at Ape Conservation Effort are hosting their Apes in the Arts event virtually this year. The benefit supports the work of Orangutan Outreach.… more…
August 10, 2021
BOSF: Justin Time for Some Romance in the Rain
Text by: PRM Team in Camp Nles Mamse, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan Date posted: August 10, 2021 ‘Crack!’, went the sound of a broken… more…
August 4, 2021
BOSF: Seeing an Orangutan for the First Time
Text by: PRM team in Camp Nles Mamse, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan Date posted: August 4, 2021 Do you recall our recent story about… more…
August 3, 2021
BOSF: An Old Familiar Face Comes to Town
Text by: BOSF Communications Team in Samboja Lestari, East Kalimantan Date Posted: August 3, 2021 Orangutans who are driven out of their habitat due to… more…
July 26, 2021
BOS Samboja Lestari Veterinarian Team Busier Than Ever
Date Posted: July 26, 2021 Text by: BOSF Communications Team, Samboja Lestari, East Kalimantan The job of caring for around 120 orangutans and 70 sun… more…
July 19, 2021
Video: 3 New Babies Join the Nursery Group at BOS Nyaru Menteng
Date Posted: July 19, 2021 Text by: Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan With no end in the near future to the pandemic,… more…
July 19, 2021
BOSF: Wild-Born Baby Orangutans Learn to Peel Bark
Date Posted: July 19, 2021 Text by: BOSF Post Release Monitoring (PRM) Team, Juq Kehje Swen, East Kalimantan On a hot day in early June,… more…
July 6, 2021
Short Film– Orangutans: People of the Forest
Photographers, filmmakers, and environmental activists, Jack Harries and Alice Aedy, teamed up with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation to release “People of the Forest”, a… more…
July 5, 2021
BOS Foundation: Learning the Ropes of Orangutan Conservation
Date Posted: July 5, 2021 Text by: BOSF Post Release Monitoring (PRM) Team, Juq Kehje Swen, East Kalimantan At the orangutan release sites we manage… more…
July 5, 2021
BOS Foundation: Meet Baby Niniek and her Friends
Date Posted: July 5, 2021 Text by: BOSF Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan Niniek was rescued in the village of Kuala Kurun of… more…
June 28, 2021
BOSF: SEVEN ORANGUTANS START NEW LIVES IN THE WILD
Date Posted: June 28, 2021 Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation, together with the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation… more…
June 2, 2021
Video: BOS Foundation’s 37th Orangutan Release Expedition
Text by BOS Foundation Communications Team Visit our Release Archive to read, watch and learn about previous releases by the BOS Foundation. June 2,… more…
May 25, 2021
BOS Foundation: Eight More Orangutans Start Life on a Pre-Release Island
Text by: Communication team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan May 23, 2021 — Last month marked an important moment for eight orangutans at the… more…
May 25, 2021
BOS Samboja: Signe Sighted With New Baby and First-Born Son
Text by: PRM Team in Nles Mamse Camp, East Kalimantan MAY 24, 2021 — In early April, our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team from Nles Mamse… more…
May 19, 2021
Jumbo and Cinta Graduate from Forest School!
Announcing our Newest Forest School Graduates! Wishing all the best to Jumbo and Cinta! May 2021 — Two of the most beloved orangutans from the… more…
May 11, 2021
BOS Foundation: Three Pairs of Mothers and Infants, Together Again
Text by: PRM team in Lesik Camp, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan MAY 11, 2021 — Last seen together in early 2020, mother-infant pairs Lesan-Ayu,… more…
May 3, 2021
BOS Foundation: Desi’s ‘Wild’ Encounter with Kimi
Text by: Monitoring team of Juq Kehje Swen, East Kalimantan May 3, 2021 — Kimi is a wild, female orangutan who lives on the pre-release… more…
April 29, 2021
BOS Samboja Lestari: Phenology 101
Phenology is the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life. It is nature’s calendar —… more…
April 28, 2021
BOS Samboja Lestari: Progress Report on Jeffrey
Text by: Samboja Lestari Communication Team, East Kalimantan April 28, 2021 — Jeffrey, a male orangutan at the Samboja Lestari Rehabilitation Centre in East Kalimantan,… more…
April 7, 2021
BOS Foundation: 3 Babies Already Rescued in 2021
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team April 7, 2021 — In the last two months, the BOS Foundation has been involved in, yet again, three… more…
March 30, 2021
BOS Foundation: Grunting Justin Gets His Point Across!
Text by: PRM Team in Nles Mamse Camp, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan MARCH 30, 2021 — One late afternoon in mid-February, the Post-Release Monitoring… more…
March 26, 2021
BOS Foundation: Top 10 Orangutan Survival Skills
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) cares for and rehabilitates orangutans at its two centers, Nyaru Menteng in Central… more…
March 24, 2021
BOS Foundation: First Orangutan Rescue of 2021
Text by: Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan March 24, 2021 — After a turbulent 2020, the new year started quietly at our Nyaru… more…
March 16, 2021
Blog: Ethical Orangutan Tourism: Putting the Well-Being of Orangutans First
Here at Orangutan Outreach, we know you love orangutans and that it would be a dream come true to see the beautiful red apes in… more…
March 9, 2021
BOS Samboja: Hungry for More Favorite Orangutan Fruit
Text by: BOS Samboja PRM Team in Lesik Camp, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan March 2021 — Recently, we posted a story about jabon fruit,… more…
March 8, 2021
BOS Foundation Release Update: Orangutans Freet, Juve and Britney Starting Strong
Text by: PRM Team in Lesik Camp, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan March 8, 2021 — After the successful release of Freet, Juve, and Britney… more…
March 5, 2021
BOS Foundation: Dilla and Delilah from Orangutan Jungle School
Orangutans in Borneo Need Your Help! Please make a tax-deductible donation to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today! Text by the BOS Foundation Communications… more…
March 4, 2021
Video: Aerial View of the BOS Foundation Project Sites
Click here to learn more about all the BOS projects. Orangutans in Borneo Need Your Help! Please make a tax-deductible donation to the Borneo Orangutan… more…
February 25, 2021
BOS Foundation: Ten Orangutans Flown to the Forest
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team February 24, 2021 — After a year of not being able to carry out orangutan release activities due… more…
February 25, 2021
Borneo Nature Foundation Launches ‘One Million Trees’ Project
Article By Yohanes Prahara, BNF’s Content Creator and Media Liaison February 25, 2021 — Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) has launched an exciting new project to… more…
February 22, 2021
BOSF: Release Candidate Profiles for the 1st Orangutan Release of 2021
February 22, 2021 — This week, the BOS Foundation in collaboration with the Central and East Kalimantan BKSDA Office released ten orangutans to release… more…
February 22, 2021
BOSF: Learning Never Stops for Desi the Orangutan!
Text by: BOS Foundation PRM Team at Juq Kehje Sewen, East Kalimantan February 22, 2021 — The BOS Foundation’s RHO Program team stationed at the… more…
February 11, 2021
BOSF: Released Orangutan Inung Surprises Monitoring Team with A Baby!
Text by: PRM Team in Bukit Batikap Protection Forest, Central Kalimantan February 10, 2021 — The ultimate goal of all of BOS Foundation’s reintroduction efforts… more…
February 8, 2021
BOS Samboja: A Favorite Fruit Among Orangutans
Text by: PRM team in Nles Mamse Camp, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan February 8, 2021 — A rehabilitated orangutan is considered ready for release… more…
February 4, 2021
Oscarina Goes Wild!
OSCARINA IS BACK WHERE SHE BELONGS!!! You can follow Oscarina’s journey back to the forest in this photo set: Back in July 2011, Oscarina was… more…
February 4, 2021
BOS Foundation: Tracking Wild Orangutans
Text by: BOS Foundation Monitoring Team in Juq Kehje Sewen, East Kalimantan February 4, 2021 — The team under BOS Foundation’s Restorasi Habitat Orangutan (RHO)… more…
February 1, 2021
BOS Samboja: Flooding Aftermath Leaves Orangutan Islands Uninhabitable
Text by BOS Foundation Communications Team January 21, 2021 — Before 2020 came to an end, the team at the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre… more…
January 25, 2021
BOS Foundation: Meet Klaus, the Playful Climber
Text by: Samboja Lestari Communication Team, East Kalimantan January 25, 2021 — It is always exhilarating to follow the progress of young orangutans who enter… more…
January 25, 2021
BOS Foundation: Never a Dull Moment with Orangutans
Text by: PRM Team in Lesik Camp, Kehje Sewen, East Kalimantan January 25, 2021 — Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team at Lesik Camp, in the… more…
January 15, 2021
Behold: Big Boy Beni
The world fell in love with Beni, the orangutan full of antics, when he was introduced on the hit series, Orangutan Jungle School. Audiences laughed… more…
January 14, 2021
BOS Samboja: Big Papa Gives Hope to Other “Unreleasables”
Text by: Communications Team in Samboja Lestari, East Kalimantan January 13, 2021 — Not every orangutan resident of the BOS Foundation’s rehabilitation centers will have… more…
January 14, 2021
BOS Foundation: Cheekpadder Mardianto’s #15YearChallenge
Text by Melki Deus Purba, Camp Coordinator for BOS Foundation PRM Team in Batikap January 6, 2021 — You might have seen the #10YearChallenge on… more…
January 14, 2021
BOS Samboja: Clingy Padma
Text by: PRM Team in Lesik Camp, Kehje Sewen, East Kalimantan January 2021 — In December, our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team from Camp Lesik in… more…
January 14, 2021
BOS Samboja: Lovely Leonie and Her Mysterious Beau!
Text by: BOSF PRM Team in Nles Mamse Camp, Kehje Sewen, East Kalimantan January 2021 — One day in the middle of September, we, the… more…
December 24, 2020
2020: New Arrivals at BOS Nyaru Menteng
Baby Keladan is just one of the new arrivals at BOS Nyaru Menteng in Borneo. Text by Orangutan Outreach and BOS Foundation The Covid-19 coronavirus… more…
December 23, 2020
2020: New Arrivals at IAR Ketapang
Baby Batis is just one of the new arrivals at IAR Ketapang in Borneo. Text by Orangutan Outreach and IAR The Covid-19 coronavirus is still… more…
December 21, 2020
2020: New Arrivals at SOCP
Baby Turnip is just one of more than a dozen new arrivals at the SOCP Quarantine in Sumatra. Click on the thumbnails to see large… more…
December 17, 2020
BOSF Forest School: Malika and the Very Strange Noise
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng December 17, 2020 — Each orangutan, much like their human relatives, has their own unique personality.… more…
December 7, 2020
Art Sale to Benefit Borneo Nature Foundation
The Borneo Nature Foundation is carrying out vital work to protect Borneo’s remaining rainforests and is implementing huge restoration efforts to restore burned and degraded… more…
December 4, 2020
BOSF Forest School: Rachel Takes Brave Steps towards Independence
Text by: Communication Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan December 2, 2020 — Orangutans acquire many important skills throughout the rehabilitation process, as they work… more…
December 4, 2020
BOS Foundation: Signe Sighted With A New Baby!
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team Dec 4, 2020 — Earlier this month, our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team from Camp Nles Mamse, in the southern… more…
November 25, 2020
Jeni & Alexander: Two More Rescued Orangutans Enter BOSF Care
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication team November 25, 2020 — Over the last few months, the BOS Foundation’s Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre received two… more…
November 17, 2020
Orangutan Outreach is Going Global!
There are orangutan lovers all around the world! Orangutan Outreach has supporters, donors, and adoptive parents from more than a dozen countries! (and Facebook fans… more…
November 12, 2020
BOS Foundation: November 2020 Update from the Rehabilitation Centers
Text by: BOS Foundation Communication Team & Orangutan Outreach November 12, 2020 — It has been eight months since the BOS Foundation closed its rehabilitation… more…
October 22, 2020
The Semi-Solitary Life of an Orangutan
Text by: BOSF Post-Release Monitoring Team in Lesik Camp, East Kalimantan October 22, 2020 — In nature documentaries that portray the lives of primates in… more…
October 22, 2020
A Jungle Rendezvous
Text by: BOSF PRM Team in Nles Mamse Camp, Kehje Sewen Forest, East Kalimantan October 22, 2020 — Several weeks ago, the BOS Samboja Post-Release… more…
October 14, 2020
BOS Foundation: An Itchy Forest School Welcome
Text by: Communications Team in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan October 14, 2020 — For the surrogate mothers at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, the… more…
October 8, 2020
BOS Foundation: The Secret to Fani’s Beautiful Hair
Text by: Communications Team in Samboja Lestari, East Kalimantan October 8, 2020 — When you’re experiencing a bad hair day, it’s easy to get hair… more…
October 6, 2020
Orangutan Outreach Featured in Washington Post
Orangutan Outreach was featured in the Washington Post in a story lamenting the state of travel and tourism in the Covid-19 era. View the full… more…
October 6, 2020
MUST SEE New Video: Bedtime at the Baby House
We hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes video from BOS Nyaru Menteng, the world’s largest orangutan rescue and care center. At the end of the day,… more…
September 30, 2020
Orangutan Jungle School: Who is the Leader of the Pack?
Text by: BOS Foundation Communications Team in Nyaru Menteng September 30, 2020 — “Yooo! Buah, yooo!”, call out the surrogate mothers every morning at the… more…
September 30, 2020
New Video: Afternoon Playtime
We hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes video from BOS Nyaru Menteng, the world’s largest orangutan rescue and care center. We are facing difficult times due… more…
September 25, 2020
New Video: Orangutan Jungle School Morning Class
We hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes video from BOS Nyaru Menteng, the world’s largest orangutan rescue and care center. We are facing difficult times due… more…