Aceh NGOs call on the European Union to urgently mediate as conflict...
2014 March 13 -Jakarta. Deputy Chairman of the Aceh Parliament, Muhammad Tanwir Mahdi, has announced to local media that Aceh Parliament rejected the Ministry of Domestic Affairs’ official evaluation...
View ArticleOC and OURF Announce New Orangutan Alliance
15 May 2014 - Los Angeles, CA. In a new alliance, two of California’s premier orangutan conservation NGOs (Orangutan Conservancy and Orang Utan Republik Foundation) have forged a coalition to battle...
View ArticleSixteen Students from Borneo and Sumatra Receive Orangutan Caring Scholarships
30 May 2014- Ketapang, West Kalimantan; Banda Aceh, Sumatra. In two separate evening ceremonies hosted by Yayasan Palung and Orangutan Information Center, sixteen students bound for college or in...
View ArticleRepresentatives of Presidential Candidates Discuss Environmental Agenda in...
3 July 2014- Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia’s presidential candidates expressed aspects of their environmental agenda through their representatives during an evening gathering of news media reporters...
View ArticleOrangutan experts plead for Australian food manufacturers to reject palm oil
Apes, elephants, rhinos and tigers at dire risk if unsustainable palm oil plantations allowed in Sumatran reserve 22 August 2014 - theguardian.com - One of the world’s leading orangutan experts has...
View ArticleOutgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Green Legacy Stands or Falls on...
22 September 2014- Jakarta- Rain Forest Action Network. In the final weeks of his presidency, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has come under massive international pressure to act to protect one of the...
View Article“Years of Living Dangerously”, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and Professor...
Climate scientists, high-profile television, film and theatrical works, and ethical business honored with Pongo Environmental Award at Orang Utan Republik Foundation's Annual Fundraiser 22 October...
View ArticleGreat apes facing 'direct threat' from palm oil farming in Southeast Asia and...
20 November 2014 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The Straits Times, Asia - The destruction of rainforests in Southeast Asia and increasingly in Africa to make way for palm oil cultivation is a "direct...
View ArticleArgentina Takes Giant Leap for Mankind Granting Rights to Jailed Orangutan
5 January 2015 - greener ideal - In a move that makes landing on the moon look like child’s play, a court in Argentina has extended the right of habeas corpus to an orangutan jailed in a Buenos Aires...
View ArticleOURF to Hold First Indonesian Fundraiser
20 February 2015 - Santa Monica, CA - Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) will be holding its first Indonesian fundraiser in Seminyak, Bali on March 6, 2014. With the title, “Voices for the Jungle,”...
View ArticleFirst Indonesian Fundraiser in Bali
6 March 2015- Seminyak, Bali- OURF held its first Indonesian fundraiser, 'Voices for the Jungle", in Bali on March 6 at Warehouse 82 in the Seminyak area. A lot of effort went into preparing for the...
View ArticleJudge Recognizes Two Chimpanzees as Legal Persons, Grants them Writ of Habeas...
20 April 2015- New York, NY (www.nonhumanrightsproject.org/) - For the first time in history a judge has granted an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a nonhuman animal. This...
View ArticleSeventeen Students to Receive 2015 Orangutan Caring Scholarships
18 May 2015 - Santa Monica, CA - OURF Headquarters. The Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) announced that seventeen students from the provinces of North Sumatra and Aceh as well as the province of...
View Article2015 LP Jenkins Fellowship Awarded for Study on the Conservation Benefit of...
9 June 2015 - Santa Monica, CA. The Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF), a Santa Monica-based conservation education nonprofit that supports the survival of wild orangutans in Indonesia, announced...
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2nd Annual Pongo Environmental Awards and Fundraiser
25 July 2015 - Santa Monica, CA - Notable environmental achievements and the people behind those accomplishments will be honored during the Second Annual Pongo Environmental Awards and Fundraiser in...
View ArticleHow Kusasi's cheek pads made him 'King' at Camp Leakey
by Graham Banes, Ph.D I can only imagine what Tanjung Puting was like in 1978, a decade before I was born. Today, this National Park in Indonesian Borneo is a bustling tourist attraction, with dozens –...
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Orangutan Caring Week – 8-15 November 2015
Annual event raises awareness concerning orangutans and their endangered status as their forest home on Borneo and Sumatra is threatened by agricultural conversion and fires. The theme this year is...
View Article‘Cocktail’ orang-utans leave researchers shaken and stirred
25 February 2016 - Leipzig, Germany - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Re-introduction of genetically distinct subspecies has led to hybridization in an endangered wild population....
View ArticleTo tree or not to tree? – The fight to protect primary forests versus the...
By Jessie Panazzolo Conservation efforts in the past have always gone to protecting the remaining fragments of precious primary forest, and it’s warranted as these patches of remaining forest land are...
View ArticleUnique Orangutan Scholarship Program Reaches Major Milestone
2 May 2016 - Santa Monica, CA - OURF Headquarters. Between the recent devastating fires that have overtaken the country’s natural habitats and celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio making surprise visits...
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