Orangutan Foundation

Join us for our Orange for Orangutan Quiz night at Wood Marylebone, NW1 London on Wednesday 16 November (Orange for Orangutan Day 2011). Photo by Ian Wood www.agoodplace.co.uk Stand-up comedian Hattie Hayridge, the compere for the evening, will help make this a fun and colourful evening with all proceeds supporting our vital work.  Buy tickets [...]

We have received news from Pak Tigor, our Orangutan Release Manager, that the two Bornean orangutans, Kevin and bobby, who were brought back from Sumatra last month, have been released back into their forest home. They have been in holding cages at Camp Gemini, in the Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve, since they arrived back in [...]

Today is Blog Action Day 2011 and the theme is food.  So what does food have to do with orangutans? Quite a lot.   Our production of food, to feed a growing human population, has a huge impact on tropical forests, biodiversity and also on the great red ape. Our last post told about an [...]

Dr Fikri, our vet sent through this report about the rescue of an infant orangutan. At the end of July our Reintroduction Team received a called from Pak Anton, the head of the Agency for Conservation of Natural Resources, BKSDA SKW II. He had received a request from a large oil palm concession in Central [...]

The Tanjung Puting National Park Authority hosted a poster and photographic competition last weekend.  The Orangutan Foundation is thrilled that Saud Teguh, one of our own members of staff came first in the photo contest with his image of the Greater Coucal and second place with his poster.   What talent – well done Teguh [...]