- Welcome from Dr. Gary Shapiro
- Mobile Education & Conservation Unit (MECU) Team 1: 2011
- Adult female Bornean orangutan and infant
- Two ecotourists enjoy the trip upriver
- Ecotourist Jesse meets Siswi at Camp Leakey
- Ecotour group poses in front of tree with enormous flying buttress
- Ecotourists enjoying dinner on the kelotok
- Sophie having dessert with other ecotourists
- Adult male Bornean orangutan
- Greening of Wedding ceremony
- Orangutan Caring Club presentation at school
- Abdul, subadult male Sumatran orangutan: killed by a local farmer
- Adolescent female Bornean orangutan in tree
- Juvenile Bornean orangutan in tree
- Gary Shapiro and Princess orangutan in Tanjung Puting National Park
- MECU program: assessing young trees at a botanical nursery
- MECU program: preparing the young trees for transport
- MECU program: choosing young trees to plant
- MECU program: distributing young trees
- MECU program: carrying young trees to a planting area
- MECU program: carrying young trees to a planting area
- MECU program: preparing the ground for planting
- MECU program: preparing the ground for planting
- MECU program: tree successfully planted
- MECU program: satisfaction after planting a tree
- MECU program: villagers and Caring Club members
- MECU program: villagers and Caring Club members
- MECU program: cleaning the MECU vehicle
- MECU program: cleaning the MECU vehicle
- MECU program: lunchtime after finishing work
- MECU program: lunchtime at the river
- MECU program: more trees needing to be planted
Dr. Gary Shapiro Welcomes You
Efforts to Protect Vanishing Orangutans Get Infusion of $200K
9 August 2018 - Santa Monica, CA - Orang Utan Republik Foundation. The Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) announces that, in its role as the USA chapter of Australia-based The Orangutan Project (TOP), it is disbursing $200,000 to a dozen programs that are racing to protect critically-endangered orangutans on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra. The grants administered by TOP to eleven organizations will support wildlife warden positions, ecosystem protection, veterinary care, orangutan rescue, post-release monitoring, research, and other initiatives aimed at curbing population loss in this vulnerable species.
Inaugural Orangutan Caring Scholarships Awarded in Central Kalimantan
16 July 2018 - Palangka Raya, Central Borneo- Borneo Nature Foundation. After going through a tough competition, Borneo Nature Foundation announced the recipients of the first-ever Orangutan Caring Scholarship (OCS) in Palangka Raya on Monday 16 July, 2018. Two scholarships were granted to selected applicants; Pricilia Gumbang and Zetli Decosta from the Forestry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Palangka Raya (UPR).
Latest News
- February 7, 2018 - Orangutan Dies After Being Shot 130 Times
- January 1, 2018 - Orangutan Caring Scholarship - Dr. Tague & Fredericka Jacks
- November 5, 2017 - Scientists announce discovery of third orangutan species
- October 30, 2017 - Orangutan Caring Week 2017 - Nov 12th - 18th
- September 4, 2017 - Fourth Annual Pongo Environmental Awards to Honor Achievement in Film, Science, Conservation and Technology
- June 3, 2017 - Orangutan Caring Scholarships 2017
- March 6, 2017 - MECU 7 Adds New Activities and Expands to New Village
- January 1, 2017 - Orphaned Orangutan, Lana, finds his Freedom in the Forests of East Kalimantan
- September 30, 2016 - Third Annual Pongo Environmental Awards and Benefit a Success
- August 25, 2016 - The Orangutan Project and Orang Utan Republik Foundation Unite!
