Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, the World’s Leading Expert on Orangutans and the Last Living Trimate, Passes Away at 79, Closing an Era of Conservation Icons. Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, founder of Orangutan Foundation International and world conservation hero, dedicated nearly 55 years of her life to researching and protecting orangutans and their rainforest home. She inspired […]
Urgent Fire Appeal – Help Us Stop The Fires
We urgently need your help again. OFI is desperately trying to prevent a repeat of the devastating fire seasons of 2015 and 2019 when thousands of hectares of rainforest burned relentlessly. We are now fighting out-of-control fires within Tanjung Puting National Park and our Orangutan Legacy Forest. In the Rawa Kuno / Rawa Kubu area over […]
Fruit Day at The Orangutan Care Center!
Orangutans are frugivores. In the wild, they spend all day in search of ripe fruit in the forest. For the orphaned orangutans at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in Indonesian Borneo, we provide almost 8 tonnes of fruit each week. OFI Canada is a major supporter of the cost of these fruits. As […]