Categorie: Projects

Ecotourism hand in hand with forest management
december 8, 2020december 8, 2020
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Ecotourism hand in hand with forest management

Mchakama is a village located 65 km from Kilwa Masoko town, it takes about 90 minutes by car to reach the village. The village also can be reached through motorcycle and bicycle from Mavuji junction. The majority of the village members are smallholder farmers practicing conventional farming and shifting agriculture, while few are also small-scale...

Tree maintenance
juli 17, 2020juli 17, 2020
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Tree maintenance

The Orangutan Information Centre restoration teams spend a lot of time conducting tree maintenance to ensure that the trees they plant survive and reach the size they should do to support biodiversity. Maintenance includes uprooting weeds, applying organic mulch and replacing any seedlings which appear to be affected by fungus or disease.

Fruit trees, bee hives, camera traps and more!
februari 28, 2020februari 28, 2020
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Fruit trees, bee hives, camera traps and more!

In August last year, Sumatran Orangutan Society started working with a new project partner in Sumatra: Nature for Change (NFC). Based on the edge of Leuser National Park, Darma (NFC founder) and his team work with the communities living in the buffer zone around the park. Farmers living in this area often grow rubber trees or oil...

Rescuing River
november 22, 2019november 22, 2019
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Rescuing River

A male orangutan was recently evacuated from an oil palm plantation belonging to a local resident in Krueng Bate village, South Aceh district of North Sumatra province. The orangutan, later named River, was safely tranquillised and quickly evacuated from the plantation. A health check by the team’s vet revealed that River is around 20 years...

Meet Nanda
november 12, 2019november 12, 2019
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Meet Nanda

Nanda has been working for Orangutan Information Centre’s restoration team for almost 5 years, and is based at the Bukit Mas restoration site. Nanda grew up in a small village adjacent to the Leuser Ecosystem and witnessed deforestation in action around his home. Now, he works hard to plant trees, restore damaged and degraded rainforest...

A new start for Lalas and James
mei 24, 2019mei 24, 2019
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A new start for Lalas and James

On 14th May 2019, the HOCRU team worked together with local forestry authorities to evacuate female orangutan and her baby from a local resident’s plantation in Alur Selalas village, Aceh Province. Carrying Lalas and James to safety. Photo courtesy of Orangutan Information Centre Later named Lalas (mother) and James (baby), the pair were tranquilised and...

Bringing one tree back from the brink
mei 7, 2019mei 7, 2019
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Bringing one tree back from the brink

Deforestation is a leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. It is estimated that about 68% of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction and it is estimated that as many as 50% of all species will be headed this way in the next 30 years. In Tanzania, the number of threatened species has tripled in...

Prime’s New Beginning
april 17, 2019april 17, 2019
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Prime’s New Beginning

Orangutans can easily become malnourished or end up in conflict with people when they’re restricted to small patches of forest. This is why our forest restoration programmes are so vital. Recently, while carrying out their regular orangutan monitoring in restricted patches of forest, the OIC HOCRU team found a male orangutan, later named Prime, isolated...

International Women’s Day
maart 8, 2019maart 8, 2019
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International Women’s Day

Happy International Women’s Day! We are so proud to support the incredible, dedicated women who work for Orangutan Information Centre. Fransisca – DirectorSyufra – Manager of Reporting and MNEDarsimah – Head of Leuser School FoundationJeni – HOCRU team vetNayla – Communication OfficerDian – Finance AssistantSofi – Finance AssistantThe whole OIC team

Ten Year Challenge
februari 8, 2019februari 8, 2019
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Ten Year Challenge

Over recent weeks, social media networks have been full of ’10 year challenge’ photos – comparisons that show how people looked 10 years ago, and how they look now. We decided to join in by comparing photos from the Halaban restoration site. The first photo was taken in 2008, and the second in 2018. We...

An office extension for OIC
januari 10, 2019januari 10, 2019
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An office extension for OIC

OIC have shared this video thanking Beautiful Cups and their customers for all their support. This new office extension will enable their team to keep growing, helping their work and mission to protect orangutans and their forests.

Highlights of 2018
december 18, 2018december 18, 2018
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Highlights of 2018

With the end of the year fast approaching, here’s a look back at some of the amazing things we’ve achieved in 2018. We have planted 112,200 trees this year! This brings the total number of trees planted through our projects to 1,775,153. In addition to this, our wildlife crime patrol team have covered over 20,000km...