18/08/2026
🌿 A second wild birth in less than three months.
On 29 July 2026, our Post-Release Monitoring team spotted Wenda moving through the canopy of Jantho Nature Reserve with a newborn clinging tightly to her chest — healthy, just days old, and already learning the forest her mother once had to relearn herself.
Wenda was confiscated in 2009 as an orphaned one-year-old. After rehabilitation at our Quarantine Centre in Sibolangit, she was released into Jantho in 2014, and has been thriving in the wild ever since.
Her infant arrives weeks after Bulan's baby was confirmed in the same reserve, making it the 11th wild birth recorded among more than 190 rehabilitated Sumatran orangutans reintroduced to Jantho.
"It shows that rehabilitated orangutans, when given the opportunity to return to their natural habitat, can survive, reproduce, and contribute to the establishment of a new wild population." - M. Yakob Ishadamy, Conservation Director, Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari
The Sumatran orangutan remains Critically Endangered. Every birth like Wenda's is proof that rehabilitation works, but only for as long as the forest is still standing to receive them.
📸 YEL-SOCP / Khalidin
🤝 A joint program of YEL-SOCP and Indonesia's KSDAE
