Welcome to the Family!

Thank you for joining the Orangutan Outreach Adoption Program by sponsoring the care of an orangutan in need!

We created the adoption program in 2007 to help cover the costs needed to care for orphaned and displaced orangutans. Your adoption funds are sent to the orangutan center in Indonesia where your adoptee is being cared for. By adopting an orangutan, you are helping to provide delicious fruit and nutritious milk as well as veterinary care and daily enrichment for the orangutans. Thank you so much!

There is a lot more to Orangutan Conservation than meets the eye! Orangutan adoptions are one piece of the bigger puzzle that is ‘Orangutan Conservation’. What are the other pieces? And how do they all fit together? Let’s take a trip up into the canopy and see things from the perspective of an orangutan!

View from the Canopy

Together with our partners, Orangutan Outreach takes a holistic approach to orangutan conservation. Learn more about "The 5 "Rs" of Red Ape Relief" here.

RESCUES

Orangutan Outreach supports the rescue of orphaned and displaced orangutans across Indonesia. Can you imagine coming across an orangutan being kept chained up as a pet? Or seeing an orangutan wandering through a barren landscape? You would definitely want to help! Thankfully, our local partners are equipped to rescue these orangutans and provide them with the care they need. Some rescued orangutans need to be relocated to a safer area of the forest. Others, such as babies and injured orangutans, are brought to rehabilitation centers and cared for as long as necessary. With your support, Orangutan Outreach is able to fund emergency rescue operations whenever our partners are alerted to an orangutan in distress. You can learn more and support orangutan rescues here.

REHABILITATION

Once an orangutan is rescued and taken to an orangutan care center,he or she begins rehabilitation. For some older orangutans, it is a short stay in which they recover from illness or injury. For the babies and toddlers, it is a much longer journey. The precious little ones have been taken from their mothers. Scared babies are given love and attention as they gain confidence and heal from their trauma. Wonderful Indonesian women are the caregivers to the young orangutans and watch over them as they make their way through the levels of forest school. Just think of a child going from nursery school… to kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school… and on to college— learning critical new skills each step of the way! Rehabilitation assures each orangutan is equipped with the skills he or she will need to survive once they are old enough to return to the forest. Donations allow Orangutan Outreach to support the care of precious orangutans through their entire rehabilitation journey. Intrigued? Learn more and support orangutan rehabilitation here.

RELEASES

We celebrate when each orangutan successfully completes their rehabilitation and look forward to the time they will finally be reintroduced to the forest! This exciting moment is referred to as an orangutan release. Can we get a whoop-whoop?! Orangutans who have demonstrated necessary survival skills are released into safe areas of protected forest. But don’t worry - that is not the end of the story! The newly wild apes are tracked by specially-equipped post-release monitoring teams for up to 18 months to assure they are thriving in their new home. Thank goodness! The goal is for released orangutans to reproduce and contribute to new wild orangutan populations. IN other words we don't just want them to survive— we want them to THRIVE! We want to see lots of new beautiful babies! Release operations are very costly and, thanks to our supporters, Orangutan Outreach can assure our partners have the funds for this crucial endeavor. Do you want to help return orangutans to freedom in the forest? Learn more and support orangutan releases here.

RETIREMENT (CAGE-FREE SANCTUARY SPACE)

While the hope is to rehabilitate every rescued orangutan and return them to the forest, unfortunately this is not always possible. Some orangutans lack the necessary skills due to the extended time they spent in captivity. There are also some orangutans that suffer from infectious diseases or have severe physical limitations. These orangutans are referred to as "unreleasable". These special orangutans cannot live freely in the forest, but we certainly don’t want them in a cage for the rest of their long lives! Orangutan Outreach is working with our partners to provide these dear orangutans the chance to live outside of cages in a forested sanctuary space. Just picture having a private island to enjoy, where all your needs are met. Sounds good to us! Would you like to help deserving orangutans live out their lives with dignity and respect? Read on and support orangutan retirement here.

REFORESTATION

Orangutan Outreach is proud to support several large-scale reforestation projects. Without forests, there can be no orangutans! We provide the finances needed to restore huge areas of forest that were destroyed in years past. Reforesting land that has been burned and logged is an essential part of orangutan conservation. Our work to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned and displaced orangutans is just a part of the solution. We also MUST assure there is healthy, suitable forest in which to release the orangutans! This is the only way to maintain viable wild populations of the beautiful red apes. We are doing everything we can to make sure that there will be orangutan habitat for years to come. Let’s plant trees together! Learn more and support reforestation here.

Apes Together Strong

Whew! That's a lot of work! But it is work we happily take on— because the orangutans can't do it on their own. They need us. They need YOU!

Now that you've seen the big picture, we hope you will want to become even more involved in our ongoing orangutan conservation efforts. Please– Let us know what touches your heart and let’s join forces to assure we always live in a world with orangutans.

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