SANDAKAN: Yayasan Sime Darby (YSD), in collaboration with the Sabah Forestry Department (SFD) and the Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD), commemorated International Orangutan Day 2024 at the Rainforest Discovery Centre here Monday.

This year’s in-person event, the first following a virtual celebration in 2021, commemorates 15 years of YSD’s commitment to orangutan conservation. 

It spotlighted the foundation’s decade-long RM25 million initiative in the Northern Ulu Segama, now the Bukit Piton Forest Reserve is a key effort in Sabah’s conservation landscape.

The celebration also marked the continuation of YSD’s work with the Human-Orangutan Coexistence (HOC) initiative, now progressing into its second phase with the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP).