This year marks 50 years since OFI President and Founder Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas made camp in the jungles of Borneo to begin her pioneering study of orangutans, one of humankind’s closest living relatives. This year we are celebrating this momentous anniversary to honor Dr. Biruté for dedicating her life to the conservation of orangutans […]
OFIC’s Nursery Program in Central Borneo
There are currently over 330 orangutan orphans at the Orangutan Foundation International’s (OFI) Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. That is 330 individuals to house, care for, and feed. All orphans depend on us to meet their daily needs. These orphans almost always come to the Care Center as infants or juveniles, injured, and/or ill. They are often traumatized, and afraid of humans and new situations. […]
2015 Fire Season at the Orangutan Care Center
For the last few months, as fires burn all over Indonesia, the air has been thick with smoke at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine facility in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. There is no relief! The haze stays for the whole day although it may lessen a bit in the cool of the […]