Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS)

About BOS

In the first year of the second decade in the 21st century the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) already save more than 1,000 Orangutans . The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) was found in 1991 by Dr Wallie Smits. Their mission is to preserve Orangutans through the evantual reintroduction of rescued and rehabilatated Orangutans and bring them back to their natural habitat in the rain forest. BOS is the biggest primate conservation NGO worldwide.

 

BOS Nyaru Menteng

Nyaru Menteng is an Orangutan rescue and rehabilitation in Palangka Raya km 28 Central Kalimantan. BOS Nyaru Menteng was founded by Lone Drøscher Nielsen in 1998. Nyaru Menteng has become the largest prrimate rescue project in the world, with almost 700 orphaned Orangutans. Many of these Orangutans are only one week old when they arrived in Nyaru Menteng, and all of them get psychologically traumatized. Nyaru Menteng BOS get Orangutans from the local farmer, illegal pet-traders for them to take care.

Mission:

•  To accelerate the process of release the Bornean orangutan from ex-situ to in-situ locations as its habitat;
• To accelerate the protection of Bornean orangutan and its habitat;
  To improve the local community empowerment around orangutan habitat;
• To support the research and education activities in the Bornean orangutan conservation facilities as well as in its habitat;
• To strengthen the participation of--and between--multi stakeholders who are involved in orangutan conservation and to initiate the formation of partnership between them;
• To increase the institution’s capacity. 
 

Vission:

"The realization of Bornean orangutan conservation and its habitat with the community’s participation"

Website :

If you want a know more about Borneo Orangutan Survival please open in this website: http://orangutan.or.id/home

References:

Borneo Orangutan Survival. (2011, April 2). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:10, May 31, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Borneo_Orangutan_Survival&oldid=421995426

The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. (2010). The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. Available: http://orangutan.or.id/home. Last accessed 31st May 2011.