Nuril Rachmaniah

Today, the situation facing wild orangutans is far worse than in 1971 when Dr. Galdikas first began. As a result of poaching and habitat destruction, orangutan populations are on the edge of extinction and could be completely gone in the next ten yrs

Mission

Our mission is to support the conservation and the understanding of the orangutan and its habitat while caring for/rehabilitating these ex-captive individuals as they make their way back home to the rain forest.
Since its inception OFI has rescued and returned to the wild over 450 orangutans in Indonesian Borneo and has protected over one million acres of rainforest. OFI has worked with Indonesian government and local communities in Borneo to expand national parks, establish reserves, and buy forest from local people and communities in order to set up local protective forests.

Company Overview

For 41 years Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat. Today she is the world’s foremost authority on the orangutan. Her work with OFI has shined a light on the situation in this treasured part of Indonesia. As an organization we have various continuing projects to help serve our purpose:

We are actively patrolling Tanjung Puting National Park in order to prevent illegal logging and mining which destroy the natural habitat. (73% of the logging in Indonesia is illegal)

We are planting trees of differing species in the degraded areas of the reserve in order to expand and recreate the forest. (The current rate of forest loss is 6.2 million acres per year)

We are currently trying to raise money to buy land in order to protect it, rather than having it purchased/stolen and destroyed. The increase in palm oil use results in the massive clearing and burning of rainforests, in doing killing off species and habitat homes.

We are constantly funding and keeping up the research efforts at Camp Leakey.

We own, staff, and run an orangutan care and rehabilitation center located in Tanjung Puting National Park. We currently have approximately 340 orangutans in