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Giving Day logo 2021
2021-09-15  |  In Media, News

Giving Day for Apes 2021

The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) runs the only rescue, rehabilitation and reintroduction programme for orangutans in Sumatra. Since 2001 over 430 orangutans have been received at our specialist orangutan quarantine station, averaging more than 20 new arrivals per year. Over 320 of these have been released to the wild, as the founders of two […]

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2020-10-10  |  In Media, News

Breaking News: Dr Ian Singleton receives well deserved OBE in the Queen’s 2020 Birthday Honours List

Indonesia, October 10th, 2020: We are delighted to announce that our very own Director of the SOCP, Dr Ian Singleton, is to be recognised as an «Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire» or OBE, for his Services to the Environment and Conservation, as announced earlier today with the publication of this […]

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2020-10-01  |  In Media Releases, News

The Third Baby Orangutan Born in The Orangutan Reintroduction Center, Jantho

Jantho, Sumatra, Indonesia – Wednesday, August 26, 2020, the Post Release Monitoring (PRM) team at the Orangutan Reintroduction Center, in the Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve, Aceh, Sumatra, found an orangutan mother along with her baby estimated to be 3-5 months old on the FB1200 trail. The baby orangutan is male and is the third […]

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2020-09-26  |  In Media, News

Consultant Needed for Orangutan Haven Project

Orangutan Haven is particularly innovative and exciting new development of PanEco and YEL, located near the large city of Medan, in North Sumatra. Whilst the initial, primary goal of the Orangutan Haven is to provide 8 unreleasable orangutans with a dramatically improved quality of life, the 50-hectare Orangutan Haven site offers unlimited potential for the […]

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2020-08-06  |  In Media, News, Publications

YEL Annual Report 2019

Please have a read through Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari’s 2019 Annual Report, to learn more about what we have been up to! PDF download of the report here!

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Orangutan Climbing Tree by Alain Schroeder
2020-07-16  |  In Media, News

Huge thanks to Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC) and Leonardo DiCaprio for helping us get the word out and protecting orangutans!

Everyone in the world is facing their own challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, our thoughts are with all our SOCP family around the world. We have been deeply touched by our friends and supporters over the last weeks and months who, despite personal challenges, have come together to make sure the SOCP can […]

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2020-04-10  |  In Media, News

Four babies orangutans arrived during the pandemic

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 […]

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2020-03-20  |  In Media, News

Preparing in case of COVID-19 at the SOCP Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre

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 […]

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2020-01-16  |  In Media, News

The 400th orangutan arrives at SOCP

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 […]

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2019-12-20  |  In Media, News

Repatriation a baby orangutan from Bali to Sumatra

A baby orangutan was repatriated from the island of Bali to Sumatra and brought to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP)’s Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre. The male orangutan estimated two years old and was relocated from Bali on the 17th of December 2019 by BKSDA Bali, accompanied by Jakarta Aid Network (JAAN). The orangutan […]

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FRESH POSTS

  • Giving Day for Apes 2021
  • Breaking News: Dr Ian Singleton receives well deserved OBE in the Queen’s 2020 Birthday Honours List
  • The Third Baby Orangutan Born in The Orangutan Reintroduction Center, Jantho
  • Consultant Needed for Orangutan Haven Project
  • YEL Annual Report 2019

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