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.
A joint team from the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation and the Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) recently rescued another baby orangutan. This time, the joint team collected a 1-year-old male orangutan from the village of Keladan, in Kapuas Regency, Central Kalimantan. The baby orangutan was said to have been found stranded alone near a farm and was kept by a farmer for about a month. As usual, there was no information on the baby’s mother.
When the baby was rescued, he was in a weakened state and running a high temperature. During the trip to Nyaru Menteng he ate some rambutan - an Asian, hairy-looking fruit - and drank the water that was offered to him. Upon arrival at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre on 21 January, the baby was placed in quarantine and the medical team performed a general health check on him.
The baby orangutan upon rescue
The rescue of a male baby orangutan
The first baby orangutan rescued by BOSF in 2020
Today, this male baby orangutan is still receiving intensive care from our team of medics and surrogate mothers. Weighing only 3.3 kilograms, he must undergo at least two months of quarantine before he can join other orangutans in the nursery group.
We are all hoping for a speedy recovery for this young male!
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.
