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Welcome to the Orangutan Information Centre's website. We are a non-profit organization sponsored by the Sumatran Orangutan Society who is dedicated to the conservation of Sumatran orangutans and their habitat.

We promote public awareness of the plight and value of this critically endangered species and its unique habitat through grassroots educational programs and empower local communities living near the last remaining orangutan habitat to work towards a more sustainable future for their forests.

We welcome any involvement in our efforts to create an environment committed to long-term conservation of orangutan habitat through environmental education.

Please feel free to surf our website and contact us if you require any more information about orangutans or their conservation status and what you can do to help!

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Next few days of tour…… – Sandakan, Malaysia Travel Blog

This is the latest indexed Orangutan News and Information titled: Next few days of tour…… – Sandakan, Malaysia Travel Blog. You can read the detailed information on the link found after description of the content… Enjoy your reading…

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Just when we were thinking of leaving this orangutan is walking along the fence of our sort of viewing pen thing. Then he bowls in and takes a seat on the floor. Totally unfazed by all the punters coming to take a picture. Was crazy. …
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Next few days of tour…… – Sandakan, Malaysia Travel Blog

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About Us

OIC is dedicated to the conservation of Sumatran orangutans and their habitat. We promote public awareness of the plight and the value of this critically endangered species and its unique habitat through grassroots educational programmes and empower local communities living near the last remaining orangutan habitat to work towards a more sustainable future for their forests. Read More

Projects

OIC consists of three main divisions: Conservation, Education, and the OranguVan Mobile Awareness Unit (MAU), all of which are supported by the Information Development and Production division. However, as all of our work runs on the same theme: working to save the Sumatran orangutan and its rainforest ecosystem from further degradation - often our programs (and people!) work inter-connectedly. Read More

Sumatran Orangutan Ecotourism Developement Programme (SOEDP)

About SOEDP

Sumatran Orangutan Ecotourism Development Program is a program of YOSL - OIC that conducted in the Bukit Lawang and Tangkahan as an effort to make the Bukit Lawang andTangkahan as a good, safe and sustainable habitat for population of orangutans in the Gunung Leuser National Park. The activities conducted in this program are: training to the Bukit Lawang and Tangkahan tourist guides, showing film as a guidelines for visitors of Gunung Leuser National Park on the Bukit Lawang Information Corner, making guidebook for visitors about Gunung Leuser National Park, making information signpost (sign board) at some point in the area of Bukit Lawang, questionnaire distribution to the tourists who visiting Bukit Lawang and from the questionnaire we expected to see things that need to be improved to increase the quality of the Bukit Lawang area as ecotourism site.

Protocols and Guidelines

Sumatran Orangutan Health Protocols & Guidelines for Visitors of Bukit Lawang Eco-tourism Site

As you trek through the forest at Bukit Lawang, it is important to remember that you are entering the habitat of one of the rarest great ape species on Earth. The population of Sumatran orangutans at Bukit Lawang is from two different origins:

Ex-captive individuals who have been rehabilitated and released in the forest. Captive and rehabilitation experiences often result in released rehabilitant orangutans not fearing humans and even expecting to interact with them.
Wild individuals, some of whom have become habituated to human presence, with the remaining being naïve (i.e. not used to people’s presence in their forest habitat).

New Film

New Film about Guidelines for Visitors to the Gunung Leuser National Park.

A film on guidelines for visitors to the Gunung Leuser National Park has been produced by the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in conjunction with Source of Indonesia (SOI). This film, which runs for 15 minutes, is available online and will be screened to all visitors wishing to attend an orangutan feeding session in Bukit Lawang or to go trekking in the national park. The film is an instructional film which summarises the key guidelines that must be respected by visitors and guides in order to reduce any negative effects on orangutans’ natural behaviour and also prevent disease transmission between orangutan and humans as well as vice versa.

Watch the Film on OIC Video Archive Page

Pocket Guidebook

Pocket Guidebook for Visitor of Bukit Lawang and Tangkahan

Orangutan Information Centre Sponsored by Some Organization has produced Pocket Guidebook to Visitor of Bukit Lawang and Tangkahan Ecotourism Site. This Guidebook will be given to all of Visitors who visiting Bukit Lawang and Tangkahan. If you have plans to visit Bukit Lawang or Tangkahan, we suggest you to download the Digital Version so you can learn about Bukit Lawang and Tangkahan much before you arrive there.