Our Mission is to protect orangutan populations and forest biodiversity in and around Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Our Vision is to develop a human community that is aware and motivated to conserve orangutans, their habitat, and biodiversity in this part of Borneo.
In 2016, the status of Bornean Orangutans was upgraded to Critically Endangered. The time is NOW to protect as much remaining habitat for Wild Orangutans as we can!”
Cheryl Knott, PhD
SAVE WILD ORANGUTANS is a social media community in support of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program (GPOCP). Our aim is to ensure a future for orangutan populations and their tropical forest habitat in and around Gunung Palung National Park. We take a multi-pronged approach to conservation:
Habitat Protection
We are protecting existing habitat, and creating new forests, through developing Sustainable Livelihoods and Customary Forests.
Conservation Awareness
Through Environmental Education and Conservation Awareness programs in schools and communities throughout Borneo, we are motivating people to protect orangutans and their habitat.
Scientific Research
We are increasing the scientific knowledge of orangutan ecology, behavior, reproduction and assessing the status of the Gunung Palung population.
Gunung Palung is one of the few viable orangutan populations left – with a healthy population of approximately 5000 orangutans in an intact ecosystem in the National Park and surrounding forest.”
Cheryl Knott, PhD
Protecting intact forest in Gunung Palung so orangutans can thrive there also protects the entire complement of biodiversity in one of the best remaining lowland forest areas in all of Borneo. Five species of cats, eight species of hornbills, thousands of plant species, to name just a few groups, will also have a safe refuge.
