Jodet, a Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), has been cared for at the Jogja Wildlife Rescue Center (Yogyakarta Nature Conservation Foundation) since March 1, 2022. This animal was entrusted to the East Kalimantan BKSDA after the confiscation of an unlicensed animal park on East Java Island. The team of doctors from WRC Jogja followed the orangutan...

August is quite a proud month for us. Apart from commemorating Indonesia’s independence day, on the same day we translocated two adult male orangutans named Beni and Boni to the Arsari Orangutan Sanctuary Center in East Kalimantan. Beni and Boni have been living and being cared for in our center for a long time because...

We were Celebrating” one year of the pandemic, but this March was still a regular month for us. Some of the activities we do include focusing on the saltwater and New Guinea crocodile medical check-up, moving the long-tailed macaque we received last February to a bigger cage after having completed a few weeks of quarantine,...

Time flies so fast in February. We still had to carry out several activities during the pandemic, even though we had to tighten expenses and cut some employee salaries due to a lack of funds. Open donation and fundraising programs have really helped us through all these difficulties. In one month, approximately 100 million rupiahs...

2020 has been the toughest year for WRC Jogja and for all of us. The virus pandemic paralyzes all sectors of the economy. Even though we are engaged in the conservation sector, we are also being affected. The flight out of action and the closure of borders have stopped the arrival of foreign visitors, especially...