When you support Hutan, you support their work to empower local communities to manage and protect wildlife. Hutan’s vision is to sustain meta-populations of orangutans across the mixed-use Bornean landscape encompassing both fully protected forests and production areas.
Orangutans play a critical role in seed dispersal, keeping forests healthy, with over 500 plant species recorded in their diet.
Unfortunately, due to habitat loss and their low reproductive rate, orangutans, only found in Borneo and Sumatra, are Critically Endangered. The major threat in Borneo is the loss of the ecological integrity of their ecosystems and hunting.
Hutan believes that a crucial approach to preventing the extinction of orangutan populations in Borneo is to actively engage and support stakeholders in creating innovative mechanisms where local development becomes compatible with the long‐term conservation of the orangutan and of its habitat.
Protect Orangutans
With WCN’s 100% model, your entire gift supports the conservationists working to protect orangutans in the wild.
Orangutans:
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200,000
Trees
Trees planted for orangutans to forage, traverse, and breed in.
800+
Orangutans
The population in Borneo has stabilized to 866 individuals.
500,000
Hectares
Of the Kinabatangan officially nominated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 2025.
Solutions in Action
Thriving Nature & Wildlife
Restoring Habitat
Hutan is working to recreate contiguous corridors of forest along the Kinabatangan to support key populations of forest-dependent species and increase the overall availability of food sources for wildlife. Their work aims to enhance practical knowledge of the design and the methodologies of forest restoration programs. Since the beginning, the team has planted more than 200,000 trees that are still thriving today.
Thriving People
Empowering Women
The forest reforestation team is comprised entirely of local women. They are in charge of planting, maintaining, and monitoring seedlings of native tree species at selected reforestation sites within or adjacent to the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary. They also run a small tree nursery to provide seedlings that are used for reforestation activities.
Supporting Conservationists
Scientific Research
In 1998, Hutan established the Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Program (KOCP) intensive study site, which in 2005 became part of the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary. They recruited a team from the local community to follow wild orangutans at this site. The KOCP Intensive Study Site is the location for the longest uninterrupted orangutan research study in Borneo.
Quote“I hope that we can understand the significance of the wildlife distribution in this unique part of Borneo where reforestation and palm oil plantations entwine. This knowledge will be invaluable in helping to guide our conservation of the ecosystem in the years ahead.”
Amanda Shia, Scientific Officer Hutan
