Make sure to visit the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sabah. This rehabilitation center was built in 1964. The center’s main purpose is to rehabilitate orphaned orangutans.
As an attraction, the center offers visitors the chance to observe the daily routines of orangutans in their natural habitat.
And if you’re really in the mood to do something meaningful, you can even adopt a baby orangutan (this does not mean you can bring them home though) and support the center’s efforts to take better care of the animals! For just 50 cents a day, you can give these orangutans a future.
By choosing to become an adoptive parent of an orangutan you will be helping to ensure that he or she will have everything they need until they can be safely released back into the forest by our partners’ BOS, IAR & SOCP.
If they can’t be released, you will be helping cover the costs of their care in a sanctuary.
The funds for Gracia go toward our reforestation program with BNF. Orangutan adoptions are US $15 per month (when made in 12 monthly payments for a total of USD $180) or USD $150 per year (when paid upfront). The orangutans stay at the care centers in Borneo & Sumatra! Orangutans are perfect.
In June 2018, the BOS Nyaru Menteng rescue team joined forces with local authorities to rescue a baby orangutan who was being held illegally in a small village.
A man claimed to have found the baby stranded alone in a forested area near a palm-oil plantation and he had decided to take her home. During her captivity, she was treated like a human baby. She was bathed and dressed in clothing.
To be clear, a mother orangutan will NEVER abandon her baby, so there is likely far more to this story than we were being told. Fortunately, the baby had not sustained any injuries and was in good physical health. The medical team gave her a name as beautiful as she is: Monita.
