Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Please help Mawa! Donate today via LINK IN OUR CHANNEL BIO!
When Mawa was found, he was completely alone.
A tiny orangutan, barely a year old, hidden among piles of logged branches at the edge of a destroyed forest.
He should have been clinging to his mother. Instead, he was clinging to life.
A local fisherman discovered him near a logging site. Not knowing what else to do, he took the baby home and alerted BKSDA West Kalimantan, who stepped in to save him.
Mawa was then brought into the care of our partners, YIARI.
He arrived at the center dehydrated, malnourished and weak. His tiny body told a story of loss, confusion and sheer survival.
Now, Mawa is safe. He is learning how to be an orangutan again. Because he was so young when rescued, Mawa is being supported through YIARI’s surrogacy programme, which pairs orphaned orangutans with older individuals who can teach them vital forest skills and give them the comfort they have lost.
This Christmas, we are raising $112,000 to help three orphaned orangutan pairings, including Mawa’s group, return to the wild. Your donation will help cover rehabilitation, release and post-release monitoring so that more orangutans like Mawa can grow strong enough to live free once again.
Every donation is being matched, so your gift will go twice as far to help Mawa and others find their way home.
Please help Mawa! Donate today via LINK IN OUR CHANNEL BIO!
When Mawa was found, he was completely alone.
A tiny orangutan, barely a year old, hidden among piles of logged branches at the edge of a destroyed forest.
He should have been clinging to his mother. Instead, he was clinging to life.
A local fisherman discovered him near a logging site. Not knowing what else to do, he took the baby home and alerted BKSDA West Kalimantan, who stepped in to save him.
Mawa was then brought into the care of our partners, YIARI.
He arrived at the center dehydrated, malnourished and weak. His tiny body told a story of loss, confusion and sheer survival.
Now, Mawa is safe. He is learning how to be an orangutan again. Because he was so young when rescued, Mawa is being supported through YIARI’s surrogacy programme, which pairs orphaned orangutans with older individuals who can teach them vital forest skills and give them the comfort they have lost.
This Christmas, we are raising $112,000 to help three orphaned orangutan pairings, including Mawa’s group, return to the wild. Your donation will help cover rehabilitation, release and post-release monitoring so that more orangutans like Mawa can grow strong enough to live free once again.
Every donation is being matched, so your gift will go twice as far to help Mawa and others find their way home.
