Orangutans are a lot like us. They share 97% of our DNA and, tragically, are now at risk from coronavirus. Scientists fear the virus could easily jump to orangutans. If the virus were to infect even one wild orangutan, experts fear it could potentially spread unchecked and wipe out an entire population.
This a serious concern for Sumatra's only Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre. The risk of transmission to wild populations means even healthy animals must wait now before they can be returned to their rainforest home. But new cases keep arriving, some requiring urgent treatment, as orangutans are rescued from illegal captivity.
The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme's (SOCP) Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre urgently needs your help. We have launched a new fundraising campaign to help us meet significant, unanticipated costs to help protect orangutans from coronavirus Please see our new video and consider a donation at this critical time!
The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) is a collaborative initiative between the Indonesia-based NGO the Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (YEL; Sustainable Ecosystem Foundation), Swiss-based NGO the PanEco Foundation, and the Indonesian Government’s Directorate General of Natural Resource and Ecosystem Conservation. The SOCP works on all aspects of conservation of the Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) and Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis).
Despite the ongoing of COVID-19 outbreak in the world include Indonesia, there are still orangutans separated from their mother, and since third week of march 2020, four orangutan babies arrived at the SOCP Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre. Two of them are female who are estimated to be 1-1,5 years old, another one is male […]
The spreading of COVID-19 outbreak is increasingly worrying from day to day in many countries including Indonesia. Therefore, we have officially temporarily closed all stations under Sumatran Orangutan Programme (SOCP) to anyone except key staff, including the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre since March 16th, 2020This step was taken to reduce the risk of the orangutans […]
In Early 2020, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) has accepted the 400th orangutan since the center was founded in 2020. The orangutan is a male who is estimated to be 3 years old was confiscated from Kutacane, Aceh Southeast. The orangutan was confiscated by Conservation and Natural Resources (BKSDA) Aceh from a resident in Kutacane […]
