Lone Droscher-Nielsen goes back to where it all began
12 October 2012
After a two-year break Lone Dröscher Nielsen returns to Borneo to meet the orangutans and the centre she founded 13 years ago.
12 October 2012
After a two-year break Lone Dröscher Nielsen returns to Borneo to meet the orangutans and the centre she founded 13 years ago.
2 November 2012
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has often been met with resistance, suspicion and lack of government support in Indonesia since its establishment in 2001.
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia (KLHK), the Natural Resources Conservation Centre (BKSDA) of Central Kalimantan, and the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation will soon conduct the 44th orangutan release from... View Article
Another beloved orangutan from our adoption program is ready to enjoy true freedom in the Bornean rainforest. We are incredibly proud of Meryl and so thankful to her adopters who supported her during her nine-year rehabilitation... View Article
25 August 2011
Food labels shouldn't lie. In essence that is what the debate about the listing of palm oil in the ingredients information panel is really about.
3 December 2008
A major international study says palm oil plantations reduce plant and animal diversity, and do little to reduce carbon emissions.
Orangutan Protection Foundation: 12 October 2012 Lone and Leonora get reacquainted After a two-year break Lone Dröscher Nielsen returns to Borneo to meet the orangutans and the centre she founded 13 years ago. The time we... View Article
13 December 2010
Close to 90 percent of the world’s orangutans are found in Indonesia. And Kalimantan is their home. Which is why the orangutan is widely known as the island’s flagship species.
24 November 2011
The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has reported that tuberculosis infections have delayed the release of 650 captive orangutans back to their natural habitats.
Knowing how to compete with other orangutans while foraging is one of the most critical skills an orangutan needs to survive in the wild. Each orangutan eventually learns about this, sometimes the hard way! Find out... View Article
In 2023, we welcomed two male sun bear cubs to our Samboja Lestari Sanctuary. Bakar and Coki have lived together ever since. Bakar was rescued by the Wildlife Rescue Team of the East Kalimantan Natural Resources... View Article
28 August 2008
Developed country governments should re-direct biofuel subsidies toward preventing deforestation for a far better climate outcome, a UK think-tank claims. Policy Edge has produced analysis suggesting that doing so would produce far greater savings in greenhouse gas emissions for every dollar spent on climate change mitigation.
Onyer arrived at our Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre on 15 February 2021 after being confiscated from a local resident. The villager claimed he had found the 10-month-old alone, without a mother, at a gold mine... View Article
5 February 2011
The State Enterprises Ministry is pushing the 14 government-run plantation companies to speed up their expansion plans to capitalize on rising prices and growing demand for agricultural commodities in the international market.
7 July 2011
Since 2002, on a 2,000 hectare plot of deforested land in the Indonesian state of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, an organization called Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) has been regenerating forest to create habitat for orangutans.
29 April 2009
Growing economic pain may increasingly force consumers to turn to palm oil, one of the cheapest cooking oils, a move that could scupper nascent plans to slow deforestation in Southeast Asia.
28 September 2011
Indonesia, like many other countries blessed with tropical forests, is facing the challenge of sustainably managing its vitally important forest resources.
16 February 2009
Environmental activists have mounted a challenge against the government's plan to allow palm oil companies to set up plantations in the country's remaining peatlands.
25 August 2010
With a permit already in hand, PT Orangutan Habitat Restoration Indonesia (ROI) is preparing to release orangutans into Borneo jungles after years of being held in rehabilitation centers.
We are thrilled to announce that we recently joined “Include a Charity”, a social change campaign that aims to encourage more Australians to pledge a charitable gift in their Will. Did you know that gifts pledged... View Article
9 March 2009
Indonesia has applied to join a World Bank programme that supports developing nations' efforts to fight deforestation and help them earn cash through the sale of tradeable carbon credits. The Bank's $350 million Forest Carbon Partnership Facility aims to support developing states design and create projects under a U.N.-backed scheme that could eventually earn poorer nations billions of dollars a year by protecting their forests.
16 October 2012
Animal conservation workers are hoping they've made a major breakthrough in the fight to save the endangered Borneo orangutan.
It’s membership renewal time, with subscriptions for 2009/2010 falling due in July.
4 June 2008
Palm oil is everywhere. This globally traded vegetable oil is found in thousands of products you buy off the shelf, including ice cream, chocolate, biscuits, crisps, lipsticks, toothpaste, soap, detergents, cosmetics.
In Australia BOS is always looking for people with all sorts of skills to be involved in our committee work, fundraising activities, website maintenance, education, public relations and marketing. BOS is only as strong as the... View Article
Nyaru Menteng,Central Kalimantan, March 29, 2012.
After a successful release of four orangutans on February 28 in the Bukit Batikap Conservation Forest, eleven orangutans are now in the final preparation stage to be released in the same region. This release will be conducted on March 30-31.
Mama Tata and Tata (pictured) are two of those about to taste freedom.
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29 May 2009
Carbon credits derived from a fledgling forest conservation scheme for developing nations will struggle to compete with palm oil as an investment, industry advisers and conservationists said on Friday.
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 November 2010
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation brought together its various sister organisations from around the world in October to strengthen their collaborative effort to conserve the Bornean orangutan and its habitat.
Drum Roll, Please! We are happy to announce the 5th natural birth among released orangutans in the Kehje Sewen Forest and the 21st wild-born baby across all release sites. Female orangutan Signe, released to the forest... View Article
28 February 2012
Four orangutans were released into the wild on Indonesia's Borneo island on Tuesday, an official said, as the country ramps up efforts to protect the animals from extinction.
It’s happening again! We are thrilled to announce that we are getting ready for our first release this year. We are about to bring four orangutans home into the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park in... View Article
27 January 2012
As bounty hunters with bush knives entrapped them in a circle and moved in for the kill, the only thing this mother orang-utan could think to do was to wrap a giant protective arm around her daughter.
5 November 2008
The view that the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is merely a way of making companies appear politically correct without making difference to de-forestation could be about to change if agreement on an important new resolution is reached.
It’s almost Christmas, and if you are still looking for a unique gift, sit back, relax – and browse through our shop. Check out our instant gifts, adopt an orangutan, or donate directly. Every gift you... View Article