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Published on July 11, 2025
2025 Spring/Summer Appeal Letter
The rainforest in Borneo is in crisis, and we urgently need your help now! Your support has made an incredible difference over the years. Together, we have been able to rescue and care for hundreds...
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Published on November 22, 2022
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 past years we have made...
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Published on November 12, 2021
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 I arrived at the place...
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Published on February 28, 2017
Buddies in Arms
Buddy systems frequently develop among the young orphaned orangutans at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ). Craving the comfort they would have received from their mothers for six to as many as...
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Published on August 4, 2016
What Does it Take to Feed 330 Orangutans?
It is early in the morning at OFI’s OCCQ. The staff is huddled around the kitchen fire, sipping coffee and discussing the plan for the day’s “soft releases” when orangutans are released into the forest...
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Published on May 2, 2016
Observe the World with Yosuke
Each and every orangutan at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in Kalimantan has an individual personality that distinguishes them from their peers. Choosing just one orangutan to feature as each month’s “Orangutan of...
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