EARTH DAY 2025: OUR POWER, OUR PLANET
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day as a moment to raise awareness and encourage real action in protecting the environment.
This week we encountered four released orangutans in Kehje Sewen. They are Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona. How happy we feel for having the opportunity of bumping into memorable glances.
Casey, Lesan, and Hamzah were sitting around on an open area near Camp Lesik. It was getting dark and we were just back from our daily monitoring trip at Gunung Belah transect. These three orangutans looked so close to each other and did not seem to be entirely bothered by us coming back to the camp.
They gave us a deep glance.
A couple days later, we went to monitor the area of Lembu transect. As usual we started our activities early, and set out to Lembu transect for daily monitoring. We reached the transect at exactly 2 PM and we built a flying camp there. That was when we heard rustles above our heads.
It turned out to be Mona. She was observing us high above a tree. She gave us a deep glance.
The Look of Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona (Photo credit: Awal)
The Look of Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona (Photo credit: Awal)
The Look of Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona (Photo credit: Luy)
When the sun started to set in, Mona slowly moves away from the flying camp and went deeper into the forest.
Until today, Casey, Lesan, Hamzah, and Mona are in a very good health condition and we all feel very pleased to be able to observe them in their habitat.
Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day as a moment to raise awareness and encourage real action in protecting the environment.
The Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia with BOS Foundation will soon conduct the 27th orangutan release from the Samboja Lestari Rehabilitation Centre into the Kehje Sewen Forest.
At the end of 2024, Baimah and Feruza finally advanced to Forest School Level 1. Their journey to this new stage began with an adaptation process full of challenges.
