Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) sadly announces that Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas (1946–2026) passed away on March 24th in Los Angeles, California, with loved ones by her side. She courageously battled lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis, conditions likely exacerbated by her efforts to combat wildfires that ravaged orangutan habitat in Borneo…Read More
Dear Friends of OFI, When one thinks of “The Gold Rush,” the image that often comes to mind is that of 19th-century prospectors—forty-niners knee-deep in a California stream, pans in hand, chasing a dream. Fast forward to today. A new kind of gold rush is sweeping Borneo. Illegal industrial scale panning operations are spreading along… Continue reading 2025 Fall Winter Appeal
The rainforest in Borneo is in crisis, and we urgently need your help now! Your support has made an incredible difference over the years. Together, we have been able to rescue and care for hundreds of orangutans, plant hundreds of thousands of trees, and continue our important work – preserving one of Earth’s most vital… Continue reading 2025 Spring/Summer Appeal Letter
Dear Friend of OFI, Until recently, orangutan rehabilitation programs were inundated with orphans whose mothers had been slaughtered because of massive deforestation. The number of orphans coming into orangutan rehabilitation in Borneo reflected the acceleration of forest clearing for industrial agriculture, illegal logging, settlement and road construction, and the opening of mining concessions. Remnant logged… Continue reading 2024 Appeal Fall / Winter Rescue and Rehabilitation
Sometimes you encounter a person with a vision. While Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) President Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas was in Spain as the keynote speaker at the Congress for Social Communication of Science in Burgos in 2019, she and a representative of OFI Canada, Ruth Linsky, were approached by Jorge Extramiana for a collaboration with… Continue reading Los Angeles based Orangutan Foundation International becomes the home of the World Biological Corridor in North America
Orangutan Foundation International coordinates its programs with the support of the following Indonesian Government Agencies:
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