To celebrate Orangutan Awareness Week 2022, we are offering 15% off all our sanctuary-based orangutan volunteer projects for all travel dates in 2023 and 2024 when you secure your place by November 30th. This offers a great opportunity for anyone who is passionate about orangutans to travel to Borneo, get involved, and help make a difference to the future of the species.
Join us in Borneo, where you will live and work in an orangutan rehabilitation centre! Whilst volunteering, you can expect to get involved in a variety of activities from helping to prepare the orangutans’ food, to creating exciting enrichment items such as puzzle feeders to help teach them the skills they will need in the wild. With each project offering a variety of different animal activities and experiences to get involved in, why not read our ‘Which orangutan project is right for me?’ article or click the links below to find out what sets them apart and discover which project is best suited to you!
With over 500 volunteers joining our orangutan conservation projects each year, we welcome a great mix of people from all around the world. The majority join us as solo travellers and though the ages of volunteers range from 18 to 75, they all have one thing in common: a passion for orangutans and a desire to help make a difference to their future.
If you're keen to get involved, why not learn a little more about our orangutan conservation projects below, and see how your next holiday could help secure a future for one of the most endangered and incredible species on the planet!
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Volunteer with orangutans on this award-winning orangutan project at Matang Wildlife Centre in beautiful Borneo!
Work on enrichment for 112 orangutans and 72 sun bears at the world-renowned Samboja Lestari Rescue Centre
Help to rehabilitate the largest number of captive orangutans in the world at this world-renowned orangutan sanctuary in Borneo!
1-year-old baby orangutan, Iqo, has been freed from illegal captivity. After being kept as a pet for five months, she was found severely dehydrated and exhausted. See what progress she’s now making as she undergoes rehabilitation at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Sanctuary in Borneo.
After 2 difficult years, we finally welcomed volunteers back at the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Project in April, and The Great Projects’ volunteer coordinator Kate, provides a roundup of what was achieved at Samboja Lestari in 2022.
Merle shares her experiences from her time spent volunteering at the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Project in September 2022, including the time she spent with the resident sun bears.
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