CAMERA TRAP: RECORDING THE NEIGHBOURS OF THE TAPANULI ORANGUTANS
Our team sets up camera traps in the area of the monitoring station in the Batang Toru Ecosystem, in the province of North Sumatra.
QUEEN ELIZABETH HONORS IAN SINGLETON
What a big honor: The British Queen honors Dr. Ian Singleton. Ian has been the director of the Sumatran-Organgutan-Conservation-Programme since the beginning in 2011.
«EDELWEISS» – NEW HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
In the middle of the ongoing pandemic orangutan female «Edelweiss» presents her offspring to us in the rainforest of Jantho.
THESE ARE THE FIRST ORANGUTAN HAVEN OCCUPANTS
The main goal of the Orangutan Conservation Programme is to rehabilitate as many orangutans as possible and to reintroduce them into the wild.
BEING A SUBSTITUTE MOTHER FOR INOX
Sometimes a mother isn’t capable of caring for her little one. All the better when someone notices and takes action.
COMMITTED TO THE COMMUNITY
An essential component of all our efforts to conserve Sumatra’s rainforests is our work with communities living at or near the forest edge.
THE SMALL RUNDENG
She will go into history of the Orangutan Conservation Programme as the youngest orangutan ever brought to our Quarantine and Rehabilitation Centre.
THANK YOU! DANKE! TERIMA KASIH!
Fortunate in difficult times: Thanks to the successful crowdfunding campaign on the Wemakeit platform 38.000 francs were raised.
NOW IT´S URGENT!
We need your support – and now would be best! Within a month, we should collect CHF 20`000 for three new orangutan enclosures at our quarantine and rehabilitation station.
IS CORONA A DANGER FOR THE ORANG-UTANS?
The orangutans are one of our closest relatives, with about 97 percent of their DNA identical to ours.