Your tax-deductible orangutan adoption will help OFI care for the displaced and orphaned orangutans at our Care Center during their rehabilitation back to the wild.
Benjamine approaches life with wide-eyed enthusiasm, meandering across the forest like a raindrop drifting down a windowpane. She seems to suffer from the affliction FOMO (fear of missing out) so she is always drawn to where the action is, be it in the playground or the surrounding forest.
Most of the orphaned orangutans who arrive at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) are at first shy and bewildered. It takes time for the caregivers to earn their trust and to give the newly arrived orangutan orphans their self-esteem back. Not so with Proudfoot. Despite the circumstances in which she arrived at the care center as a recently orphaned infant, Proudfoot was and is a healthy orangutan developing apace. The moment she was brought to the infant nursery, Camp Danielle, it was all the caregivers could do to contain her energy and enthusiasm for life. The caregivers were instantly taken with this precious, precocious baby. One cannot help but be transfixed by her dark liquid-pool eyes or admire her thick hair that glows in the sunlight with a fine russet hue.
The end of 2019 closed the door on one year but saw OFI’s Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in Central Borneo open its doors to a new arrival. Meet Crystal, an orphaned female orangutan who was rescued and brought to the OCCQ when she was barely a year old. With a thick head of hair and a face full of attitude, it didn’t take long for Crystal to make an impression. Every orangutan who arrives at the OCCQ must undergo a mandatory 30-day quarantine. After this quarantine Crystal went straight to Camp Danielle, the infant facility. Every orangutan infant has at least one surrogate mother and Crystal’s is Ibu Eteng. Ibu Eteng is devoted to her new charge and has happily committed herself to help guide and develop Crystal’s skills for the wild.