LOOKING FOR SANTA’S MOTHER
Santa is a young female orangutan, not more than two years of age. She was sat all by herself inside a wooden cage, and one can’t help but feel her sadness.
We are working hard to protect the Bornean orangutan and its habitat for future generations. Here are some of the ways we've helped develop a world where orangutans and nature thrive.
Santa is a young female orangutan, not more than two years of age. She was sat all by herself inside a wooden cage, and one can’t help but feel her sadness.
Four years ago on the 14th May 2010, a resident of Hampalit village in Katingan Regency, handed over an orangutan that he had been illegally keeping for several years, to the BOS Foundation team at Nyaru Menteng.
Jane was confiscated from a resident of Palangka Raya by the Central Kalimantan Conservation and Natural Resources Authority (BKSDA) on November 9, 1999 when she was 4 years old and weighed 13.5 kgs.
Justin was hanging tightly onto a corner of his cage when a technician from Samboja Lestari entered to gently persuade him to be carried outside to the waiting car.
On May 21, 2013, a collaborative team from the BOS Foundation and Restorasi Habitat Orangutan Indonesia (RHOI) successfully completed a rescue and release operation in an oil palm plantation belonging to PT. Yudha Wahana Abadi (YWA).
