Please give a special gift to rescue displaced orangutans
Deforestation and fires continue to wipe out the last native forests of Indonesia.
Critically Endangered orangutans have lost their habitat and are seeking food in farms and villages, making them highly vulnerable to poachers. Many are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
Right now, our ground teams are sifting through remnant forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan, searching for displaced, wounded and starving orangutans. They are patrolling farms, plantations, villages and towns, making sure they are the first point of call for every person who encounters a displaced or injured orangutan.
But we urgently need your help because our teams are stretched, and there’s only so long a displaced orangutan can survive.
Could you give a gift today and help us with this urgent work?
For many hundreds of terrified orangutans, your gift today will be life-changing. It will resource our partners to reach deeper into remnant forests, seeking injured and displaced orangutans. It will also equip our rescue centres to care for rising numbers of wild orangutans, many of whom need emergency interventions, followed by long term rehabilitation before they can be released into protected habitat.
A rescued orangutan being checked for eye infections caused by toxic smoke from nearby forest fires, at our Bornean Orangutan Rescue Alliance centre.
Longer term your support will also help our partners work closely with local people to learn sustainable farming techniques, restore native orangutan habitat and re-hydrate degraded peat forests to prevent future fires.
Our rescue teams are severely overstretched and we urgently need to raise funds to resource more rescue staff, more patrol teams, and more carers at our rescue and rehabilitation centres.
Care staff at International Animal Rescue Indonesia providing a saline drip to a rescued orangutan suffering dehydration
Right now, we have a unique opportunity to save the lives and restore the habitat of Critically Endangered orangutans.
Please give a gift today and help us protect orangutans displaced through deforestation. Thank you!