EARTH DAY 2024: PLANET VS PLASTICS
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day to honour the planet that is home to us all.
On Wednesday, March 26, 2013, at a ceremony held in Jakarta, The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation officially received Peka Fund from Citibank and First State Investment (FSI).
During the ceremony, Jamartin Sihite, the CEO of the BOS Foundation had also received a chance to give a short presentation about the work we are doing on orangutan conservation and preservation.
The Rp. 400,000,000 fund was raised as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility program from their investment revenue.
Despite the many candidates to receive the fund, The BOS Foundation was chosen among others since Peka Fund focuses on action-based organisations instead of those of campaign-based. The BOS Foundation is credited as an organisation highly dedicated in the field and has created positive direct impacts in orangutan conservation in Indonesia.
Mr. Jamartin Sihite in the press conference. Photo by: Tosca
As mentioned by Jamartin on his statement, we are in great need of support to continue our work to protect the orangutan from extinction. FSI and Citibank with their donation can definitely help us in running the orangutan conservation area, and in managing two orangutan rehabilitation centers in Kalimantan which currently taking care of more than 800 orangutans who are orphaned and have lost their habitat.
We would like to thank Citibank, FSI, and their investors for the trust they have given in the BOS Foundation and our work.
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day to honour the planet that is home to us all.
It was a usual day at the Nyaru Menteng forest school, where young orangutans were learning from one another while their human surrogate mothers looked on from below.
Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team at Camp Himba Pambelum in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR), Central Kalimantan, encountered Suci, a young female orangutan, three times back in 2023.
