Fall – Winter Appeal 2022
For the last 51 years, Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) has been working to save orangutans and their endangered tropical rain forest habitat. Without forest, wild orangutans cannot survive. During the…
Kusasi: Survivor
Kusasi was an extraordinary orangutan. Unlike most orangutans living in the wild, he was the star of his own film called “Kusasi: From Orphan to King,” which initially aired on…
Protect and Patrol
Spring 2022 Appeal: Protect and Patrol
OFI ranger placing sign: “It is forbidden to cut trees and hunt animals in this area.” You would be hard-pressed to find people more dedicated, resilient, and selfless than the…
EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT: IBU RENIE
Prepandemic Ibu Renie holds a rescued infant orangutan at the Care Center in Central Kalimantan. Jakarta, the current capital of Indonesia. A city famed for its hustle and bustle, roads…
2021 Seed And Sapling Appeal
As I sit here at my desk writing this letter to you, I reflect on where I was almost exactly fifty years ago this month. It was November 1971 when…
Threats to the Park Escalated in the 1980’s!
In the 1970s the situation facing orangutans and the existence of rainforest seemed somewhat bleak. Little did I know! The situation in the 70s was actually the calm before the…
First Mother: Siswoyo
In the mid 1970s, two retired Indonesian Army Generals, one of whom had been the very popular Chief of Police for all of Indonesia, gave me their four orangutans. One…
Akmad – the chosen highlight orangutan of the first decade
Young Akmad - 1974 Akmad impacted me not only because she was the first orangutan female whom we rescued but also because of her very genteel and serene nature. She…
Spring 2021 Appeal
Rescued orphaned, wild-born orangutan infant Levyat OFI Care Center’s Infant Playground This year Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) and I entered our 50th year – half a century – in Borneo!…
IN MEMORIAM: HOCKEY Orangutan of the Month Remembered December 2020 and January 2021
At OFI we enjoy the highs but we also must endure the lows. It is with a heavy heart that we inform our friends and supporters that after a short…
