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Breaking News: 2015 Fire Season

Each year, as the rains cease and the long, hot, dry days pile up on top of each other like a pile of kindling, OFI faces one of the most… Continue reading Breaking News: 2015 Fire Season

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. Often Larry will sit in his caregiver’s lap while Ray climbs around the jungle gym.

A day of fire-fighting teaches lessons for a lifetime

A smoky haze blankets the landscape for miles before we reach Rawa Kuno Forest. Off in the distance, great plumes of smoke can be seen emanating from the horizon. At… Continue reading A day of fire-fighting teaches lessons for a lifetime

Changing weather, Changing Ecosystems

For the human and animal dwellers of Borneo, monsoons, droughts, and other extreme weather conditions are nothing new. The equatorial climate of this mega-island can be famously inhospitable. As such,… Continue reading Changing weather, Changing Ecosystems

It’s Our Job to Help Keep Orangutans Safe in any weather.

These days, it’s difficult to pick up a newspaper or turn on the television or Internet and not find a headline story in the news about extreme weather. It seems… Continue reading It’s Our Job to Help Keep Orangutans Safe in any weather.

Boncel and Josmik Get a New Enclosure

Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) is constantly addressing unforeseen problems, which come with any wildlife conservation efforts. Habitat destruction, poaching, illegal pet trade, wildfires, and corporate exploitation are all problems that… Continue reading Boncel and Josmik Get a New Enclosure

Up in smoke: facts and frenzy about Borneo forest fires

You are standing in the midst of destruction. Felled, charred trees litter the smoldering ground below you. The dead leaves crunch under your feet with each cautious step and the… Continue reading Up in smoke: facts and frenzy about Borneo forest fires