Fires hit close to home!

October, 11 2014
It’s fire season again! This is the time for which OFI prepares each year. This is the time we all dread! The dry season was slow to come this year,…

Orangutan of the Month: Maggie

September, 13 2014
Maggie is a feisty youngster and won’t let you forget it! If she’s not somersaulting into her playmates than it’s safe to bet she is swinging your way, waiting for…

Clinton visits OFI's Care Center & Camp Leakey

September, 13 2014
Former American President Bill Clinton spent two days visiting Orangutan Foundation International’s facilities in Central Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. Traveling with a delegation representing the Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative, Clinton was…

Orangutan genome (part 1): The quest for Leakey’s ancestral great ape

March, 28 2014
Louis Leakey was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist who devoted his life to uncovering the early phases of human evolution. Using the scientific tools available at the time, he set out to…

Brave Little Ben: Orangutan of the month

March, 28 2014
When I arrived at the Care Center more than six months ago, Ben was the smallest infant in OFI’s care. He always seemed a little timid, and when he was…

Caroline, a True Beauty of an Orangutan

March, 1 2014
Out of the 300+ orangutans who reside at OFI’s Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in Kalimantan Tengah (Central Indonesian Borneo), Caroline doesn’t stand out in the crowd. She’s small…