On September 13, 2026, Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) and our partners at The Indonesian Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) rescued a 20-year-old orangutan mother and her one-month-old infant daughter from a wildfire in West Kotawaringin Regency, Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. We found mother and infant clinging to a burned tree, surrounded by… Continue reading Sari & Sara: Rescued From the Flames
Dear Friends of OFI, When one thinks of “The Gold Rush,” the image that often comes to mind is that of 19th-century prospectors—forty-niners knee-deep in a California stream, pans in hand, chasing a dream. Fast forward to today. A new kind of gold rush is sweeping Borneo. Illegal industrial scale panning operations are spreading along… Continue reading 2025 Fall Winter Appeal
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 of orangutans, plant hundreds of thousands of trees, and continue our important work – preserving one of Earth’s most vital… Continue reading 2025 Spring/Summer Appeal Letter
Dear Friend of OFI, Until recently, orangutan rehabilitation programs were inundated with orphans whose mothers had been slaughtered because of massive deforestation. The number of orphans coming into orangutan rehabilitation in Borneo reflected the acceleration of forest clearing for industrial agriculture, illegal logging, settlement and road construction, and the opening of mining concessions. Remnant logged… Continue reading 2024 Appeal Fall / Winter Rescue and Rehabilitation
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… Continue reading Fall Appeal 2023
Orangutan Foundation International coordinates its programs with the support of the following Indonesian Government Agencies:
Eyes on the Forest – OFI’s Monthly Update
