OFI Partner, World Education, Begins Farmer Field School Program in Tanjung Puting National Park

May, 17 2004
World Education (WE) was established more than fifty years ago to improve the lives of the disadvantaged through social and economic programs. These programs include agricultural training, environmental education, community…

Field Update by Leslie Smith, GIS Project Manager

April, 12 2004
A new conservation project focused on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is under way at Tanjung Puting National Park. GIS is a digital mapping technology used to store and analyze geographic…

Lamandau Nature Reserve: An Orangutan Release Site

March, 4 2004
Lamandau Nature Reserve, an expired logging concession comprised mainly of peat swamp forest, is prime orangutan habitat in Borneo. It was designated as an official orangutan release site in 1997.…

Rusti Stays in Hawaii: Sanctuary-like Facility to be built

February, 24 2004
Rusti, a 24-year-old cheekpadded male orangutan, owned by Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) and brought to the Honolulu Zoo some years ago for a temporary stay, will now stay in Hawaii…

OFI begins work on USAID Conservation Grant

February, 14 2004
Developing a park co-management team OFI, in conjunction with World Education, began work on its second USAID grant in October 2003. One of OFI and World Education’s goals is to…

Orangutan Populations may become extinct in the wild within the next twenty years

November, 21 2003