UPDATE:

BBC Orangutan Sanctuary Faces Closure

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The desperate plight of Borneo’s orangutans was captured recently in BBC One's 'The Orangutan Diary'. Since filming ended, the rescue sanctuary – Nyaru Menteng – has completely run out of funding. The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) need your help to stop the sanctuary from closing and give vulnerable orangutans a future.

Nyaru Menteng – run by BOS - is the biggest orangutan rescue operation in Indonesia. Threatened by massive habitat loss and persecution by human captors, the sanctuary is a lifeline for injured and persecuted orangutans. Its successful rehabilitation programme offers the only chance for these orangutans to return to the wild.

But with more orangutans coming in than the sanctuary can cope with, and the huge challenge of finding safe forest to re-home them, the situation is desperate.

We need you to help us raise £1 million to keep Nyaru Menteng running and protect orphaned orangutans from persecution.

If the money isn’t found quickly, the sanctuary will close. Dedicated staff will be forced to leave, and the centre’s hugely successful rehabilitation programmes will be abandoned.