Save the Sumatran Orangutan from Extinction

The proposed spatial plan puts two huge forest conservation areas under threat. Nationally protected by Indonesian law, the 2.6 million-hectare tropical Leuser Ecosystem has been identified as one of the “world’s most irreplaceable protected areas” and is rapidly gaining support in Aceh and around the world to be fully recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Less than 6,300 Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutans remain. If this plan is passed by Indonesia’s Central Government, the Sumatran orangutan will slip into extinction within a few short years.

The Orangutan Project (TOP) is not only funding the fight against this spatial plan and protecting the orangutan’s habitat, but also an ongoing battle to rescue and release the displaced orangutans back into the wild. The Pinus Jantho Nature Reserve is funded by TOP and is one of only two release sites where Sumatran orangutans are now being released into secured habitat. Without our crucial work, the orangutan species in Sumatra has no hope of survival.

TOP requires $60,000 to continue our efforts annually to run this critical release project and help save over 1,000 baby orangutans like Seroja here from being killed, starved to death, or orphaned when her forest is destroyed as a result of this new plan.

Every donation helps us get that little bit closer to securing a future for these amazing animals. And if that’s not already enough incentive to donate, remember all donations over $2 are tax deductible. And because they can’t, we say thank you on their behalf.

What you can do? 

Please help us continue the battle on the frontline to protect the forest home of the orangutan. We only have one chance to save this area and that chance is now. If we don’t act this important ecosystem will be lost forever.

$20 – buys a pair of sturdy boots and a uniform for a technician taking young orangutans to their daily jungle school lessons.

$35 – pays for weekly transport of staff and supplies including orangutan food into the release site.

$50 – buys a weekly supply of food and medicine for the orangutans housed in the pre- release cages at the release site.

$75 – will help purchase tracking equipment so released orangutans can be monitored.

$125 – pays the weekly wages of a local project manager and assistant to run the station and oversee orangutan releases.

$250 - pays for an orangutan keeper for one month to help rehabilitate orangutans, including feeding and cleaning.

$600 – enables protection for one hectare including: law enforcement, chain sawing illegal palm oil and patrols while the forest naturally regenerates.

$3,000 covers the total cost of one orangutan to be released after confiscation/rescue and rehabilitation.

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