ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION IS CELEBRATING 35 YEARS!

Founded in 1990, the Orangutan Foundation began in a small bedroom in London. With your support, this year we are celebrating 35 years of protecting the future of orangutans, forests and people.

 
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A look at some of our achievements together…

 
 

ORANGUTANS

4 camps for post-release orangutan monitoring

33 orphaned orangutans cared for and returned to the wild

100+ orangutans born in the wild

290+ orangutans rescued and translocated into the wild

1,000+ orangutan health checks conducted


FORESTS

12 guard posts in operation

264,600+ trees planted into degraded forest

100,000+ hectares of tropical forest actively protected

100+ firefighting and integrated patrol operations carried out

20+ years of wildlife research

127 wildlife species recorded from camera traps and direct encounters

5 priority animal species monitored each year: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, tarsiers, saltwater and false gharial crocodiles

820,000+ hectares of forest outside of protected areas surveyed for orangutans

 

 

PEOPLE

50+ research grants provided for students

29 educational activities for kindergarten to high school students reaching 2,111 young people

Visitors from 69 countries have visited the Tanjung Harapan Information Centre in Tanjung Puting National Park

20 conservation training sessions conducted

20+ villages involved in human–orangutan conflict mitigation