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Passing of OFI Board Member and Hollywood Legend: Norman Lear

February, 1 2024

Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) is greatly saddened by the passing of Norman Lear, a legendary television and film producer and writer, as well as longtime friend of OFI. Norman was 101 years old when he died at home on December 5, 2023. We extend our deepest sympathies to his family and loved ones. Several years…

Los Angeles based Orangutan Foundation International becomes the home of the World Biological Corridor in North America

December, 17 2023

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…

Fall Appeal 2023

September, 24 2023

Dear Friends of OFI, The babies need our help! Each day, thousands of acres of tropical rain forests are clear‐cut, burned, and reduced to ash. The scorched earth, once home to variegated wildlife, becomes a deafeningly silent monoculture plantation. Wild orangutans who once roamed these now stricken ashen landscapes are starving, their deaths often carried…

Fall - Winter Appeal 2022

November, 22 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 past years we have made tremendous progress protecting wild populations of orangutans and forests in Borneo. But it is not enough! Unfortunately, in many ways…

IN MEMORIAM: Orangutan 1978 - 2021 SISWI Much Loved!

September, 26 2022

It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Siswi, arguably Orangutan Foundation International’s (OFI) most famous and beloved orangutan, passed away towards the end of 2021 after a short illness. Siswi was 43 years old and it was 43 years filled with as much drama, comedy and tragedy that any of…

Bear of the Year: HILDA A Big Bear with a Big Personality

July, 26 2022

An urgent call, a life on the line. Dr. Galdikas took the call in Pasir Panjang, Central Indonesian Borneo.This is how Hilda’s involvement with OFI came to pass. Since OFI took in its first sun bear, Desi in 2008, it was almost inevitable that more would follow. In 2012 an informant tipped off OFI that…

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Passing of OFI Board Member and Hollywood Legend: Norman Lear

Los Angeles based Orangutan Foundation International becomes the home of the World Biological Corridor in North America

Fall Appeal 2023

Fall - Winter Appeal 2022

IN MEMORIAM: Orangutan 1978 - 2021 SISWI Much Loved!

Bear of the Year: HILDA A Big Bear with a Big Personality

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