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The Orangutan Foundation
Bornean orangutans are listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, with an estimated 104,700 remaining in the wild. Tragically, mainly due to habitat loss from palm oil farming, this number is anticipated to decline to 47,000 individuals by 2025.
Since 2015, Dublin Zoo has been providing funding to the Orangutan Foundation for their work in Lamandau Wildlife Reserve.
Dublin Zoo also takes part in a European breeding programme for Bornean orangutans.
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The Orangutan Foundation
Bornean orangutans are listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, with an estimated 104,700 remaining in the wild. Tragically, mainly due to habitat loss from palm oil farming, this number is anticipated to decline to 47,000 individuals by 2025.
Since 2015, Dublin Zoo has been providing funding to the Orangutan Foundation for their work in Lamandau Wildlife Reserve.
Dublin Zoo also takes part in a European breeding programme for Bornean orangutans.
Orangutan Foundation
Since 2015, Dublin Zoo has provided funding to the Orangutan Foundation for their work in Lamandau Wildlife Reserve. Lamandau Wildlife Reserve is home to over 500 orangutans and is one of the few places in Indonesia where translocated and rescued orangutans can be released in the wild.
Funding from Dublin Zoo has supported the management of Camp JL, a soft-release site for rescued orangutans in Lamandau Wildlife Reserve in Borneo, and the Habitat Protection Programme. In 2017, Team-leader, Ciaran McMahon and keeper, Aisleen Greene went to visit their project sites in Lamandua Wildlife Reserve and footage was recorded for “The Zoo” programme, see how they got on below.