THE 100th ORANGUTAN!

Since February 2012, the BOS Foundation has released 91 orangutans, i.e. 82 orangutans from Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Program and 9 orangutans from Samboja Lestari Orangutan Reintroduction Program. On October 12-14, the BOS Foundation will again release 9 more orangutans from Samboja Lestari, bringing the total number of released orangutans since 2012 to 100!
 
This little girl was only around 3-4 years old when she was confiscated back in 2002 by the East Kalimantan Conservation and Natural Resources Authority (BKSDA) from a resident of Bontang who had kept her for around 3 years. Since then she has been cared for at our Samboja Lestari Orangutan Reintroduction Center.

This photo was taken a year after she arrived at Samboja Lestari, around the time when she first joined Forest School.
The little girl is not so little anymore. She has graduated Forest School with flying colors and has grown into a dominant, smart and independent female teenager. She is also crowned as the most beautiful orangutan in Samboja Lestari.

She is now preparing for the most challenging journey of her life – a journey to her rightful home where the trees are gloriously thick and the air and water are deliciously clean, the Kehje Sewen Forest in East Kalimantan managed by the Indonesian Orangutan Habitat Restoration (RHOI).

And she will be the 100th ORANGUTAN to return to the forest!
Who is she?

Keep watching this space (and our Facebook pages and Twitters) to find out the answer soon!