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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation BOS
Australia
HQ address: PO Box 341
Chadstone Centre
Chadstone 3148
Victoria
Australia
Email: contact@orangutans.com.au
Website: www.orangutans.com.au
Region: SE Asia & Pacific
Type of Organisation: NGO,
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Description:
The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) is a not-for-profit foundation supported by thirteen
sister organizations around the world. (Until the recent name change, BOS was also known as
the Balikpapan Orangutan Survival Foundation.) BOS works under an official agreement with the Indonesian
Ministry of Forestry for the conservation of orangutans and their ecosystem by involving
and educating the local people. BOS is presently running the world's largest primate conservation project
and employs more than 200 permanent staff. BOS' interests cover biodiversity issues (flora
and fauna), forest rehabilitation, forest inventory and monitoring (through its company PT SarVision
Indonesia), agroforestry (to improve local peoples' welfare and education), as well as working with
orangutans and other protected wildlife.
BOS was formed in 1991 when Dr. Willie Smits, a tropical forest ecologist and senior advisor to the
Minister of Forestry of Indonesia, found a sick orangutan in the local market. He managed to
keep her alive and was then given a second problematic baby, and had to care for the two of them.
The foundation has a board of directors, supervised by Ir. Djamaludin Suryohadikusumo, former Minister
of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia, who is also the patron of the foundation together
with His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. The board of directors is assisted by a
scientific advisory board, which comprises orangutan experts and other specialists from Indonesia
and around the world
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