Orangutan Habitat for Survival Project
Rainforest Rescue’s Orangutan Habitat for Survival Project is working in partnership with the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in North Sumatra to save the Orangutan by restoring and protecting critical Orangutan habitat in the Gunung Leuser National Park .
This is being achieved through the planting of rainforest plant species, the removal of illegally planted Oil Palms, and the prevention of further clearing of the rainforest.
Our project is also educating the local community on the importance of the rainforest and threats to Orangutan survival , as well as providing alternative and sustainable employment through rainforest restoration.
Indonesia has one of the highest rates of tropical rainforest loss in the world with 48% of rainforest in Sumatra destroyed in the last 25 years. This has had a devastating consequence for the Critically Endangered Sumatran Orangutan with an estimated 6,624 left in the wild. As a ‘keystone’ species for conservation, the disappearance of the Sumatran Orangutan may very well contribute to the loss of thousands of other species of plants and animals within their rainforest ecosystem.
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