Herbarium Photo Essay: Shoots, Seedlings, and Saplings of Hope

OFI’s Herbarium is an incubator for hope. In the plant nurseries, thousands of healthy shoots aim skywards. OFI staff are raising these native plant species in order to reforest crucial Bornean forests, re-creating a home for the unique flora and fauna of this island.

Orangutan of the Month for February 2020:
MARSHA, Magic in the Canopy

It is amazing to think that just over 50 years ago we knew so much less about these orange apes, orangutans, the only great apes native to Asia, than we… Continue reading Orangutan of the Month for February 2020:
MARSHA, Magic in the Canopy

Orangutan of the Month for January 2020:
LEVY, Mr. Can-Do

Male orangutan infants are lightning bolts packed with energy and if there is one orangutan who can be guaranteed to be in the thick of it, that is Levy. Some… Continue reading Orangutan of the Month for January 2020:
LEVY, Mr. Can-Do