1 Jun 2016
Purchasing a baby orangutan care kit helps us provide the around-the-clock-care that every single orphaned. Just $35 buys one kit. BONUS baby orangutan posters available!!
3 August 2011
Consider it from the businessman’s perspective: It all makes so much sense. The rainforest, vital for people, biodiversity, and global climate, is being cut down to make money.
YOU MADE IT!
This week the funds raised in our 0 to 65 promotion crossed the goal line of $65,000 ($65,185 to be precise)!
Thank you so much again to everyone who has made this possible. It has been a real team effort and shows what great supporters the orangutans have at BOS Australia!
BOS Fundraising Team, August 2010
9 July 2008
Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned.
9 September 2008
Two Healesville organisations are proving their worth in the fight to save Borneo's orangutans.
10 June 2012
As the public servants of Indonesia's Forestry Ministry stand waiting for the lifts, they are assailed by warnings against graft.
23 May 2015
In trying to meet the goals specified in the Indonesian Orangutan Conservation Strategy and Action Plan (2007), the BOS Foundation with the support of the local community is trying to utilise a small part of Salat Nusa island located in the estuary of Kahayan River as an orangutan conservation area, as well as to protect environmental services rendered by this essential ecosystem.
19 November 2010
As scientists who study tropical forest ecosystems, we would like to commend the Indonesian government for its commitment to tackling deforestation and Norway for the support it is providing to help Indonesia achieve this.
28 January 2009
AUSTRALIA is contributing directly to the widespread destruction of tropical rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia by importing millions of tonnes of taxpayer-subsidised biodiesel made from palm oil.
Where to start when talking about everybody’s darling, Beni? He is the megastar of the award-winning documentary series ‘Orangutan Jungle School’. He has fans all around the globe who follow the daily video posts on his... View Article
Have you ever wondered how our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) Team in East Kalimantan transports all their equipment through the Bornean rainforest? To say the least, it’s challenging. It’s a long journey to reach our two camps... View Article
With our current appeal all proceeds from sales will be sent to our sanctuaries to care for orangutans that will never be free.
Why can’t they be free, you ask… It’s not that we don’t want them to be free, it’s just that they can’t be.
You can help by making a donation, or purchasing a gift certificate:
• for vet care
• for nourishing food
• for transporting babies to and from Forest School, or
• to make their days enriched and stimulating.
Donations and virtual gifts are tax deductible.
A review of Thinkers of the Jungle by Sydney Morning Herald's Nick Galvin
10 July, 2012
Still no news from KFC headquarters in the US despite the fact it’s been six weeks since Greenpeace International exposed the company’s links to rainforest deforestation.
The building of the quarantine enclosures to facilitate the release of orangutans from Nyaru Menteng is a crucial requirement in the orangutan release program, as once the final selection is made of the first 24 individuals to be released, it will be necessary to immediately isolate them from the other orangutans in the program.
With negotiations underway on the land agreement, construction of the enclosures will mark a final and vital preparation stage and determine the timetable for release. BOS Australia has committed to funding a block of ten enclosures at a cost of $150,000.
Please help us return the orangutans to the forest and support this project. To donate click here.
2 February 2009
The word came last spring at a climate change conference here. Unilever, the world's largest buyer of palm oil, would publicly call for a moratorium on deforestation by Indonesian growers of the coveted oil used in food, soaps, detergents, cosmetics and biofuel.
Our concern with palm oil tends to focus on the impact on orangutans, in particular on the destruction of their habitat as the industry expands ever further into the rainforest. However the impacts go beyond this.
28th February 2013
Since 2009, companies have announced new oil palm plantation projects in the Congo Basin covering a total area of 1.6 million hectares. Projects currently underway cover 500,000 hectares. A new report by Rainforest Foundation UK warns that vast areas of the Congo Basin forests are potentially threatened by the expansion of oil palm plantations.
16 September 2014
The orangutan population is disappearing more quickly than you could probably read this sentence.
Make your Orangutan Awareness Day a success ‘Orange day’ Everyone must have something orange. Wear orange wigs, orange ribbons in your hair, orange socks – the list is endless. Everyone brings something orange to eat –... View Article
13 February 2009
The Agriculture Ministry will issue a decree to allow businesses to dig up the country's millions of hectares of peatland for oil palm plantations.
26 June 2008
Following on from Unilever's call for a moratorium on rainforest destruction in Indonesia, there is more promising news - this time from Malaysia
3 April 2013
The much-touted new deforestation policy of controversial paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) will save almost no forests in its main base of operations, Sumatra, Indonesia, a new report by NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest has concluded.
25 April 2009
We draw supporters attention to the proposal by timber giant, Asia Pulp & Paper, to clear 33,776 hectares of forest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra, Indonesia.
15 March 2009
This is not a documentary for the faint-hearted but it is a documentary that should be viewed by as many people as possible. Winner of Best Documentary Short in the recent Durango Independent Film Festival, and directed by Moez Moez, ôGreenö documents the last hours of a female orangutan's life.
1 October 2010
There’s an easy charm to Banda Aceh that belies its tumultuous history—and a ground-breaking climate change experiment.
10 August 2009
AS SUMA, one of Melbourne Zoo's oldest orang-utans, fixes her trusting eyes on a playful toddler from the sanctuary of her enclosure, thousands of kilometres away her relatives in Sumatra and Borneo watch with fear the activities of the humans who come their way.
10 August 2012
Last month, the world-first release of two endangered orangutans, rehabilitated by humans, took place in a protected Indonesian reserve with help from Australian animal welfare organisation, Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Australia.
18 January 2013
BOS Australia President, Tony Gilding said "An important new paper was released just before Christmas. It was co-authored by no less than five staff members of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation as well as other eminent scientists."
Trilogy, producer of natural skin and hair care products, has launched an ongoing campaign to support endangered orangutans in South East Asia. Trilogy will donate NZ$1.00 from the sale of each specially marked box of its hero product, Certified Organic Rosehip Oil to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
28 October 2008
Nine-year-old Yuni held on tight to her mother's hand as a large orangutan approached an enclosure window of the Smutzer Primate Center in Ragunan Zoo, South Jakarta.
8 December 2010
Can rich nations pay a corruption-riddled government to protect its rainforests?
Saving orangutans also means protecting their rainforest homes and fighting climate change. To reduce our carbon footprint, BOS Australia and BOS Switzerland, together with the BOS Foundation, built a new solar system at our Samboja Lestari... View Article
2 September 2009
Indonesia says it could cut its carbon emissions by more than 40 per cent by 2030, by reducing deforestation, peatland degradation and power use.
June 2015
Dr.Jamartin Sihite, CEO of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation appeals for BOS Australia to help raise $75,000 by the end of June so that we will be able to release another 15 orangutans back to the wild.
28 October 2008
A middle-aged man sat on a chair in his pet shop at an animal market in East Jakarta, waiting for his customers. He sells many kinds of birds, snakes, turtles, cats, dogs and monkeys.
