As we have explai­ned on nume­rous occa­sions, the pur­po­se of SOS Pri­ma­tes’ crea­tion was to sup­port the CRPL, in the DRCon­go, which is whe­re we des­ti­ne most of our help. That does not mean that we don’t con­tri­bu­te to other zones of the world, whe­re other spe­cies of pri­ma­tes requi­re our service.

This week we dona­ted 5025’29 €  to the Oran­gu­tan Foun­da­tion (OF). The fund was gathe­red through our cam­paign ‘Este año cola­bo­ra­mos con…’ which inte­gra­tes the dona­tions from the calen­dars, the Christ­mas lot­tery, and the SOS­li­dary raffles.

The OF has wor­ked to pro­tect the 3 oran­gu­tan spe­cies as well as their habi­tats in Bor­neo and Suma­tra for more than 30 years, besi­des pro­mo­ting envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion and assis­tan­ce to local communities. 

They are very happy with the result, as are we, and they will uti­li­ze the­se funds for a trans­por­ta­tion cage, which is cru­cial to carrying oran­gu­tans and other wild­li­fe after res­cuing and libe­ra­ting them to their new place. 

The current trans­por­ta­tion cage is dete­rio­ra­ted, old, and small for their needs. They will also buy many came­ra trap units to track oran­gu­tans and the other spe­cies that sha­re their habitat. 

In fact, thanks to the came­ra traps, exem­plars of clou­ded leo­pards in the study area were reported.

In 2005 our pre­si­dent, Raúl Cabre­ra, com­ple­ted a trai­ning cour­se in Bor­neo and par­ti­ci­pa­ted in the libe­ra­tion of various oran­gu­tans. It undoub­tedly was an outs­tan­ding expe­rien­ce, as you can see in the photos.

You can find more infor­ma­tion on the OF on the web­si­te://www.orangutan.org.uk/

From SOS Pri­ma­tes we thank all of you who have hel­ped us, espe­cially our team of volun­teers, who were invol­ved in the achie­ve­ment of this mag­ni­fi­cent out­co­me, as well as all of you who have made it pos­si­ble ❤️