AGRICULTURAL CONVERSION
The biggest threat to orangutan populations is habitat loss. Despite sustainable agricultural efforts, orangutans are still losing too much of their environment to survive. Unsustainable palm oil, rice plantations, and other global market productions are an ongoing threat.
ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE
STRIP-MINING
ILLEGAL LOGGING
ENTERTAINMENT
CLIMATE CHANGE
HUMAN-ORANGUTAN CONFLICT
Going deeper into
The Woolly mammoth
| STATUS: | Extinct |
| CAUSES: |
Changing climate Loss of food and habitat Human overhunting |
Bornean orangutan
| STATUS: | Critically endangered |
| CAUSES: |
Changing climate Loss of food and habitat Wildlife trafficking |
WITHOUT ORANGUTANS,
WE TOO FACE A MAMMOTH PROBLEM
Without orangutans opening the canopy and spreading seeds, rainforests degrade, reducing biodiversity and worsening climate instability.
Losing orangutans would show human failure in conservation, and signal broader risks for endangered species worldwide.
Lost biodiversity limits science, medicine, and climate stability, reducing future breakthroughs and ecosystem resilience.
The Truth
Orangutans are following in the footsteps of Mammoths toward extinction
AGRICULTURAL CONVERSION
ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE
Human-orangutan conflict
ILLEGAL LOGGING
Strip-Mining
entertainment
Climate change
Within the past 75 years…
over 80% of orangutans
Have been lost
AT BOS
WE WORK TO SOLVE ALL THESE ISSUES THROUGH OUR MISSION AND WORK
Orangutan conservation
ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE • HUMAN-ORANGUTAN CONFLICT • ENTERTAINMENT
BOS Foundation rescues orphaned and displaced orangutans and gives them a second chance at life back in the wild.
BOS Foundation has:
Over 300 orangutans currently in their care.
Over 40 orangutans going through Forest School, learning the skills to be wild.
Once the rehabilitation process is complete, BOS Foundation returns as many orangutans back to the wild as possible, and daily monitors them for at least 2 years to ensure success.
BOS Foundation has:
Released and monitored over 530 orangutans back to protected and managed rainforests.
Observed over 30 wild-born babies from released orangutans, creating the vital next generations.
ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION
AGRICULTURAL CONVERSION • CLIMATE CHANGE • STRIP-MINING • ILLEGAL LOGGING
To ensure orangutan populations can thrive, BOS Foundation manages, protects, and rebuilds rainforest ecosystems back to their former glory.
BOS Foundation:
Manages and protects over 1.1 million acres of critical rainforest habitat, with portions of this being reforested.
Their largest protected forest is the Mawas Conservation Area, a peat swamp forest that is home to over 2500 wild orangutans and is twice the size of Greater London.
The only way to create lasting conservation is to partner and support the local and indigenous communities surrounding our orangutan habitats, which the BOS Foundation does through our Community Development work.
BOS Foundation:
Supports 32 tribal and Indigenous villages across East and Central Borneo.
Positively impacts over 8,500 households and over 42,000 people.
We’re achieving great things, but we need your help to save the orangutan from extinction
SO
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Mammoth problem?
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