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 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
It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Siswi, arguably Orangutan Foundation International’s (OFI) most famous and beloved orangutan, passed away towards the end of 2021 after a short illness. Siswi was 43 years old and it was 43 years filled with as much drama, comedy and tragedy that any of… Continue reading IN MEMORIAM: Orangutan 1978 – 2021 SISWI Much Loved!
Hundreds of orangutans were smuggled to fuel the exotic pet trade from the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra to areas far beyond orangutan native range in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1990, the Royal Thai Forestry seized six infant orangutans at the Bangkok Airport who were in the process of being smuggled to the former… Continue reading Bangkok Six
Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) and OFI Founder & President Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas are deeply grieved to announce that Pak Bohap bin Jalan passed away in April 2022. Pak Bohap was Dr. Galdikas’ husband for the past 43 years and worked with OFI for even longer. He fought a brief but intense battle against lung cancer and a heart… Continue reading Remembering Pak Bohap
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