Recent News

1 June 2014
Enrichment is a vital part of a fulfilling and stimulating life for a captive orangutan. It is essential not only for unreleasable orangutans, but those preparing to return to the wild. Help us to enrich and nurture the lives of the orangutans who are unable to be returned to the wild.

BOS at MBS Festival, Sydney 2014

19-22 June 2014
Come and visit us at stall C21 at the Mind Body & Spirit Festival, Sydney Showground, Sydney
Olympic Park. Half price online ticket offer

9th Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Release

20 April 2014
After successfully releasing four orangutans yesterday, today the BOS Foundation at Nyaru Menteng continued the orangutan release activities by sending eight orangutans into Bukit Batikap Conservation Forest.

Lou’s Enrichment Program in Samboja

April 2014
Lou Grossfeldt, BOS Australia VIce President, is currently at Samboja Lestari setting up an enrichment program for the orangutans in our care there.

Heartbleed

11 April 2014
The much publicised security breach Heartbleed does not affect our web site as we use a different encryption method. We have been assured by our providers that your credit card and personal details are safe on our site. There is no need to change your user name and password. Paypal is also unaffected.

Don’t Palm Us Off – Easter 2014

4 April 2014
Zoos Victoria Zoos Victoria has compiled a guide to help you buy orang-utan friendly this Easter.

More Samboja Orangutan releases

21st March 2014
In the spirit of World Forestry Day on March 21, 2014, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation releases 10 orangutans from the East Kalimantan Orangutan Reintroduction Center in Samboja Lestari back into their natural habitat.

Lone Media Interviews

30th April 2014
Catch up with Lone's Media interviews during and subsequent to her March Lecture Series. Including her ABC Radio National interview with Richard Aedy.

Orangutans Calling…Visit Borneo

3rd March 2014
BOS Foundation is committed to releasing orangutans into forest homes and, from 23 March to 8 May this year, BOS Australia is excited to give you the chance to ‘go wild’ as well...

Palm Oil Action Group targets Aldi

3 February 2014
The Palm Oil Action Group (POAG) is running a palm oil campaign targeting Aldi!

Gingerary and Summer Ginge 2014

Help R.A.N.G.A celebrate the end of GINGERary at SUMMERGINGE 2014
February 2014
Come and party with R.A.N.G.A and a room full of natural & wannabe rangas whilst raising money for BOS Australia- Summer Ginge 2014

Orangutans and forests

6 December 2013
J.B. MacKinnon, environmental food guru writes of a future world where only 10 percent of nature will be left and suggests that we all become conscious consumers to slow down this slippery slide.

Yayang & Sayang are free

1st December 2013
This was the day Yayang and her daughter, Sayang were returned to their forest home with thanks to BOS Australia's generous supporters

Meet Sura…

4th December 2013
Meet Sura...now just six months old, Sura was the latest victim of the scandalous Indonesian deforestation activities.

Palm Oil Action Group’s New Campaign

22nd November 2013
Announcing the Palm Oil Action Group's New Campaign: Spend a little and lose a lot at Aldi?

BOSA Get Wild – Melbourne – 26th November 2013

7th November 2013
Go Wild with Gorgi Coghlan and Teisha Lowry. Celebrate our 100th orangutan release on Tuesday 26 November at 6pm for a 7pm start, Mercat, 456 Queen St Melbourne

The oily truth

8 October 2013
Join environmental not-for-profit Sustainable Table and Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Australia at Palace Verona Cinema on Wednesday 30th October, for a screening of multi-award winning documentary Green, and to learn about the complex issue of palm oil production and how we can be part of the solution.

Mother of the apes

28 September 2013
AFTER 17 years of saving orphaned orangutans in Borneo the former air stewardess who gave up everything to protect the animals is now starting to release them back into the wild.

An orangutan with a message for you

News - Orangutan Behaviour

21 September 2013
Melbourne Zoo's orangutan Kiani has been recruited to assist in the Zoo's ongoing Don't Palm Us Off campaign. Hear what she has to say:

Orangutans plot out travel plans a day in advance: Study

11 September 2013
It's the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whooping call.

Certifying destruction

5 September 2013
Greenpeace's recent report into deforestation in Indonesia paints a concerning picture. Over the last few years every daylight hour bulldozers destroyed the equivalent of 200 football fields of forest in Indonesia, with palm oil plantations the biggest driver.

Is protecting global rainforests the best way to rapidly tackle climate change

3 September 2013
"Nothing would do more to rapidly decrease the risk of climate change than a major plan to protect global rainforests" - Opposition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt, media release, 30 August.

Coalition’s Orangutan And Rainforest Protection Plan

30 August 2013
Federal Shadow Minister for Climate Action Environment and Heritage, Greg Hunt, Coalition’s Orangutan And Rainforest Protection Plan

Release Candidates August 2013

16 August 2013
Happy Independence Day, Orangutans. Meet the 18 release candidates.

Indonesia burns again

8 July 2013
A couple of recent articles from crikey.com.au and The Economist have highlighted the cause of the haze that has blanketed Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in recent weeks.

Petitioning Kevin Rudd

2 July 2013
Kevin Rudd is visiting Indonesia the first week of July 2013. We ask he look at the devastating effects of importing uncertified, unsustainable Palm Oil into Australia.

Yayang and Sayang are finally ready to go home.

14 June 2013
This endearing duo are ready to take their first steps into the wild forest. Many orangutans like Yayang and Sayang have their life in the forest ripped from beneath them, though this special mother and her child are the lucky ones that have the opportunity to return.

Celebrity Ambassador announcement

4 June 2013
Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Australia announces new celebrity ambassador partnerships. BOS Australia is proud to align with such passionate media personalities, in their quest to help the plight of the orangutans.

BOS Australia celebrates one year of saving

18 May 2013
Baby orangutans orphaned by logging in Borneo have been given a new chance of life thanks to an Australian-run charity.

Orangutans – Victims of ‘sustainable’ palm oil in Indonesia

18 April 2013
Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, have completely destroyed the rainforest for miles around in this area of Borneo, Indonesia. Sitting on top of what is left of the last tree, an orangutan looks helplessly on.

Sydney’s MindBodySpirit Festival 16 – 19 May

4 May 2013
Come along and visit BOS Australia at Sydney’s MindBodySpirit Festival at Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre from 16 - 19 May. Better still, can you spare a half day to volunteer on our stand?

Rescue of orangutan Lou

21 April 2013
View the story of the rescue of orangutan Lou and her progress at the BOS Foundation sanctuary.

Not much protected and no commitment to restoration in APP forest promises

3 April 2013
The much-touted new deforestation policy of controversial paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) will save almost no forests in its main base of operations, Sumatra, Indonesia, a new report by NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest has concluded.

What is palm oil and why the controversy?

26 March 2013
Palm oil is the most widely produced edible oil in the world, but its use is increasingly coming under fire from environmental activists and concerned consumers.

Enriching the lives of orangutans