A New Home for Alba

The world's only albino orangutan needs a jungle island sanctuary to escape hunting. The project would require Rp1.1 billion.

October 30, 2017

LAST Monday, Alba waddled along the grassy school yard in Bukit Batu, Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan. She is one of the few albino orangutans in the world, and is already starting to look healthier after being rescued. The school is part of the program for reintroducing orangutans into the wild. Alba is already a wild orangutan, so we dont have to give her the special treatment we give others, said Deni Setiawan, program manager for the facilit

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