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Best Friends
Author avatar Published on October 30, 2014

Best Friends

Ray and Larry love hanging out on their daily releases to the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine baby playground. Larry is more timid than Ray and sometimes needs Ray’s encouragement to start exploring the playground....

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Please support OFI in a chance to win up to $250K.
Author avatar Published on November 21, 2011

Please support OFI in a chance to win up to $250K.

Update: Voting has ended and OFI has won a $25,000 grant. Thank you again for supporting orangutans and OFI’s efforts to conserve them. OFI needs your help to win part of a three million dollar...

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OFI and the Indonesian Rainforest Crisis featured on CBS's 60 Minutes II
Author avatar Published on January 6, 2001

OFI and the Indonesian Rainforest Crisis featured on CBS's 60 Minutes II

The CBS News magazine 60 Minutes II, broadcast a report featuring the orangutan’s plight, Camp Leakey and Dr Galdikas on January 2nd. “The Last Place on Earth: The closest living relatives to humankind are the...

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Great Ape Conservation Bill Signed Into Law!
Author avatar Published on November 10, 2000

Great Ape Conservation Bill Signed Into Law!

Los Angeles – Dr. Biruté M.F. Galdikas, President, Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) thanked President Clinton and the U.S. Congress for passing and signing into law HR 4320, the “Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000.” The...

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