The following organizations and individuals are planning events during or around Orangutan Caring (Awareness) Week 2012.  If you know of any events being planned that are not listed here, kindly inform us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will post them.  

We now have organizations from the following countries participating: Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, United States, and UK

Australia & New Zealand

SAVE ORANGUTANS & WITH COMPASSION & SOUL
Adelaide, South Australia
November 17 & 18, 2012

Sat 17th nov 12 - 5pm, at Feast Festival Adelaide in the Hub, Sun 18th Nov 10 - 4pm at the Vegan Festival Adealide in Victoria Square in the Palm Oil Free Zone. and then Sun 18th Nov 6 - 9pm at Feast Festival Adelaide in the Hub. For more information contact Bev at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , http://www.withcompassion.com.au ; http://www.saveorangutans.org.au

AUKLAND ZOO
Aukland, New Zealand
November 15, 201 2

The Great Ape Race - Thursday 15 November, 6pm - 8pm

With our friends from Lactic Turkey Events, Auckland Zoo brings you The Great Ape Race - a fun 'oranguteering' navigation event with a difference, that's raising funds for orangutan conservation.

This fun evening event is a chance for you and your family, or friends or workmates to get a team together for an amazing race at the Zoo. No experience required, just plenty of energy and a commitment to team work!

Registration is open from 5.30pm. Starts are staggered from 6pm to 7pm.

The race is on to save the critically endangered orangutan from extinction - and all profits from this Great Ape Race will go to the Auckland Zoo Conservation Fund to help protect orangutan populations in the wild.

Prices: $25 for adults, $10 for children (4 - 14 years) and $60 for a family (2 adults and 2 children or 1 adult and 3 children) and includes Zoo admission.

Register your Great Ape Race team now!

 The Orangutan Project- Sydney

November 11, 2012

Shannon Reserve, Sydney (Crown Street, Surry Hills)

11-4pm

Adoption, merchandise, travel inquiries to Borneo and Sumatra, 
palm readings, info on palm oil free products 
plus free samples.

A fun and entertaining day out for the whole family for a GREAT cause! 
Come along and help us save the critically endangered "MAN OF THE FOREST". 

For more information email Gail:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Orangutan Project-Melbourne

Date: 11-Nov-2012

World Vegan Day in Melbourne

Date: 11th November 2012 
Location: Princes Park, Royal Parade Service Lane, Carlton North. 
10am – 5pm 
All welcome

Vegan Food and lots more

 
Contact Amber Anile  for further details  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

or 0403025867

 
World Vegan Day Melbourne is a FREE community festival, promoting a healthy and compassionate lifestyle to all vegans and non-vegans alike. Come join us for a full day of food, workshops, talks, cooking classes, live music, exhibitor stalls and more! TOP Vic will have a stall there – so make sure you pop in and say hi!

Your pledge will help rescue orphaned orangutans, build enclosures, protect habitat, restore rainforest, provide food for orphans, and release orangutans back into the wild!

Rapid deforestation is occurring across the world and the habitat of the orangutan is disappearing in huge swathes across Borneo and Sumatra.

As part of the worldwide Orangutan Caring Week, The Orangutan Project today launches ‘Orango Tango’, a national fundraising campaign designed to build a critical mass of concerned voices to focus attention on the species through the efforts of public supporters. Orango Tango will run until June 30, 2013.

The campaign has been launched to address the worldwide destroying of orangutan habitat, which is bringing the imminent extinction of the species closer to reality.

Supporters are invited to participate in the user-driven campaign, where they have the option of making a pledge to raise funds towards one of The Orangutan Project’s on-the-ground projects. Funds raised will enable more resources to be allocated to where they are desperately needed in order to protect remaining forest and care for the thousands of orphan orangutans that end up in care centres.

“Now more than ever the orangutans and remaining habitat need our support, to prevent the large scale destruction occurring by palm oil companies across Sumatra and Borneo,” says Leif Cocks, President of The Orangutan Project.

The Orangutan Project is seeking to raise another $740,000 of funding to increase its work in the next year. Participants are able to setup their own personal page and invite supporters to join their quest!

It’s TIME to Orango Tango!

The orangutans need US NOW! There is NO time left for them, so there is NO time to lose, make your pledge and raise your funds from now until June 30, 2013.

Get your school, workplace, friends or family involved. You can raise funds for your pledge in any way you like. Your pledge will help rescue orphaned orangutans, build enclosures, protect habitat, restore rainforest, provide food for orphans, and release orangutans back into the wild!

http://www.orangotango.org.au

ADELAIDE ZOO 

Adelaide, South Australia

Nov. 11-17, 2012

Adelaide Zoo in Australia will have a palm oil product display in front of their orangutan enclosure each day of Orangutan Caring Week. This will be manned by volunteers who will talk to visitors about product labeling and how to check if palm oil is in the products they purchase. Zoo Keepers will be doing daily keeper talks.

For more information: Adelaide Zoo, Frome Road, Adelaide SA 5000 

T 08 8230 1200,  08 8230 1256 | E   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | F 08 8239 0637 | W www.zoossa.com.au

Ethikool
Light Square, Adelaide 

Czech Republic

ZOO Dvůr Králové
Štefánikova
November 12, 2012

The second birthday of orang utan baby.

Employee of the nutrition and zoology department and basic schools leaded by Mgr. Jana Rehorova prepared a fruit cake, a present and enrichment for little orangutan female. Baby girl Tessa was born on 13^th November 2010; her mother ‘s name is Zaneta. She is living in the Bird World House together with her mother and her brother Besar.  During the celebration, Mgr. Michal Podhrazsky talked about orang utans keeping in the zoo and Ing. Tomas Hajnys talked about nature conservation in South-Eastern Asia. Ing. Ales Kancnyr wished all the best and some of the 45 participants tried a knowledge quiz “What do you know about orang utans?” The event was held as a part of Orangutan Caring Week campaign of Orang Utan Republik Foundation in cooperation with numerous associations, including EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria). The aim of the campaign is to inform general public about destruction of rain forests – natural habitat of both orang utan species – which can lead to their quick extinction.

France

Zoo La Boissière du Doré

Wilhelma der zoologisch-botanische Garten 
Stuttgart, Germany

November 11-17, 2012

The Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany will participate in Orangutan Caring Week by organizing an information day at their Zoo School. Visitors will be able to watch orangutan pictures from the wild, hear about sanctuaries, learn about palm oil and hopefully, if it arrives as ordered, people can taste the durian, their orangs favorite fruit.

Indonesia

Aceh

YAYASAN ORANGUTAN SUMATRA LESTARI-OIC
South Aceh
November , 2012

To be announced

West Kalimantan

GUNGUNG PALUNG ORANGUTAN CONSERVATION PROGRAM/YAYASAN PALUNG
Ketapang, West Kalimantan
November 19-25, 2012

This year Yayasan Palung plans to carry out these activities between November 19th to November 25th, 2012:

1. Press conference and Special Report Column (date tba):
Following several recent incidents involving human and orangutans in West Kalimantan, we will held a press conference to once again bring people's attention toward the need for better strategy to balance human and orangutan need for space to live.
The press conference will coincide with another activity which is the publication of one page Special Report Column at AP Post (West Kalimantan local newspaper) regarding orangutan habitat's fragmentation, results from our investigations, etc.

2. One week radio broadcast (Nov 19th to 25th) that will air various messages, eg:
- introduction to orangutan
- introduction to orangutan habitat and its current condition in West Kalimantan
- threats to orangutan
- legal status of orangutan within Indonesia law
- rescue efforts

3. Silent art performance at public space displaying messages related to orangutan and the need for action to save them (date tba).

For further information please check our blog in Bahasa Indonesia or our website in English or our crowdsourcing campaign or our Facebook page. or contact:

Monalisa Pasaribu, Operations Manager
Yayasan Palung
Jl. Kol. Sugiono Gg. H. Tarmizi no. 05, Ketapang, 78851, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia
telp: (62-534) 303 6367; mobile:             (62-813) 505 908 32      

Jakarta, Java

OUREI INDONESIA/CLUB PEDULI ORANGUTAN INDONESIA-JAKARTA
Jakarta, Java
November   2012

To be announced.

Yogyakarta, Java

CENTRE FOR ORANGUTAN PROTECTION

November  , 2012

 To be announced

Medan and surrounding areas in N. Sumatra

Organizations: Orangutan Caring Club-N. Sumatra, Sumatran Orangutan Society-OIC, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, and other members of the Sumatran Orangutan Consortium

  

CLUB PEDULI ORANGUTAN-SUMATRA UTARA
Medan, Sumatra
November 11-17, 2012

The Orangutan Caring Club of North Sumatra will be having activities in the Bukit Lawang area in schools during Orangutan Caring Week or Pekan Peduli Orangutan.

For more information, contact Mr. Herman at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

 SUMATRA ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CONCERN (SEEC)

Medan, Sumatra
November 11-17,  2012

Orangutan Caring Week, 11th-17th Nov., SEEC will be running a week long stand in Medan for the ongoing campaign to Save Tripa, Aceh and the Leuser Ecosystem. During the week we will be raising awareness of the situation of Sumatran orangutans, teaching environment-based lessons to kids and young people in the Medan - Deliserdang area, and holding a charity auction of orangutan/nature artwork, including sketches and photographs. 

For more information contact Andy at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Spain

MADRID ZOO
Madrid, Spain
November  12-13, 2012

Here are our activities regarding the Orangutan caring week:

1.       12th November 2012: Guided visit (free for the general public) about “Sustainability and endangered species”, emphasizing specifically the Orangutan status and problematic.

2.       12th and 13th November: We are going to have a table close to the Orangutan house giving information to the visitors about the orangutans status, dangers, habitat… and the Orangutan awareness week, with workshops for children (making mask and bookmarks with Orangutan motives).

For more information contact:

United States

ABQ BIOPARK ZOO
Albuquerque, NM
Nov 10, 2012

The Zoo will hold an Orangutan Awareness Day on Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Visitors can learn about conservation efforts underway and learn how they can participate in helping wild orangutans. Guests can also discover the fascinating natural history of orangutans and other great apes and help create enrichment items for the Zoo’s orangutans.

Take a look at our Orangutan-Safe Gift Guide.

For more information contact: Natalie at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

AUDUBON ZOO
New Orleans, LA
Nov  2012

To be announced

The Community for the Promotion of Animal Welfare (CPAW).

This year we will be hosting events at the University of California Berkeley campus for Orangutan Caring Week.

• Leafletting at the Jack London Square Farmers Market

• Information table from 12pm-4pm in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley
• Film Screening of Green Desert at 7pm in 126 Barrows at UC Berkeley
  

• Information table from 12pm-4pm in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley
• Film Screening of Green at 6pm in 101 Moffit at UC Berkeley
  

Click here for materials and ideas for your own orangutan project.

http://inthistogetherblog.com/orangutanweek2012.html

BIRMINGHAM ZOO
Birmingham, AL
Nov 2012

To be announced

CAMERON PARK ZOO
Waco, TX
Nov. 10-17, 2012

Cameron Park Zoo will kick off Orangutan Caring Week on November 10th with their annual Wildlife Wonderland Day where animals enjoy a variety of enrichment activities and Zoo guests can participate in creating some of the enrichment devices. Throughout the week at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm Zoo visitors can enjoy watching the orangutans receive enrichment and participate in training sessions while zookeepers give presentations aimed at enhancing awareness about this magnificent species. Visitors can register to win a painting created by the zoo's Orangutans. Check out the Cameron Park Zoo Facebook page each day between November 11th and 17th to learn interesting facts about orangutans. https://www.facebook.com/cameronparkzoo    http://www.cameronparkzoo.com

CENTER FOR GREAT APES
Wauchula, FL
Nov. 11-17, 2012

Every day is Orangutan Caring Day at The Center for Great Apes!! The Center of Great Apes’ mission is to provide a permanent sanctuary of orangutans and chimpanzees who have been rescued or retired from the entertainment industry, from research, or who are no longer wanted as pets. The Center provides care with dignity in a safe, healthy, and enriching environment for great apes in need of lifetime care. 

Visit their Facebook page for OCW updates: https://www.facebook.com/CenterForGreatApes. 
http://www.centerforgreatapes.org

COMO PARK ZOO
St. Paul, MN
Nov. , 2012

To be announced

DUMOND CONSERVANCY
Miami, FL
November 11 & 17, 2012

The DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests, Inc., a not-for profit scientific organization located on the grounds of Monkey Jungle in South Miami-Dade County will be celebrating Orangutan Caring Week. Keepers will be informing visitors about Orangutan Caring Week throughout the week. There will be an information and activity table next to the Orangutan enclosure on 11/11 and 11/17.  http://www.dumondconservancy.org/

EL PASO ZOO
El Paso, TX
Nov 11-17, 2012

“Safeguarding Habitat for a Secure Future”

10 am - 4 pm   Asia Discovery Center discovery stations

11:30 am         Safeguarding habitat for orangutans – Speaker at Asia Discovery Center

12:30 pm         Orangutan Enrichment programs at exhibit

3:30 pm           Safeguarding habitat for orangutans – Speaker at Asia Discovery Center

During our daily Orangutan Enrichment programs at 12:30 p.m. our zoo guests will be challenged by our keepers to "play" and interact with many of our orangutans tools.

Daily Orangutan and Palm Oil learning Station at the Orangutan exhibit.  Daily "Take action" opportunities (pledge signing, letter writing to lawmakers and companies using palm oil, using cell phones to contact companies using palm oil) free Palm Oil Shopping Guides created by El Paso Zoo Education Department.  For more information: www.elpasozoo.org

 El Paso Zoo, 4001 E. Paisano, El Paso, TX 79905

About El Paso Zoo

Locally recognized as the Best Place to Take the Kiddos, the El Paso Zoo sits on 35 acres of fun and adventure. Bigger and better than ever, the El Paso Zoo is an expansive green space that is home to exotic animals from around the world and features family attractions such as the Hunt Family Desert Spring.  Accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), the El Paso Zoo celebrates the value of animals and natural resources and creates opportunities for people to rediscover their connection to nature. For more information, visit elpasozoo.org. For news and exclusive content, follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/elpasozoo) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/user/theelpasozoo). 

ERIE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

November 17^th and 18^th from 10-noon we will be doing informative Touch tables on palm oil and orangutans.

We will be selling buttons with photos of our orangutans, all proceeds will help orangutans in the wild.

for more information contact:

HENRY VILAS ZOO
Madison, WI
November 12-20th

To be announced

HOUSTON ZOO/WORTHAM WORLD OF PRIMATES
Houston, TX
Nov 10-18, 2012

The Houston Zoo will be participating in International Orangutan Caring Week from November 10-18.  The Houston Zoo’s primate staff will conduct a Meet the Keeper Talk at the Wortham World of Primates orangutan habitat daily at 3:30 PM.  Plus, visit our booth at the orangutan exhibit on November 17-18 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; to shop for painted compact mirrors, photo note cards, animal paintings, and many other items to raise funds to protect them in the wild. We will have available the beautiful one-of-a-kind orangutan painted Christmas ornaments, that can only be purchased once a year at this event. http://www.houstonzoo.org/en/cev/609

JACKSON ZOO
Jackson, MS
November 2012

To be announced

NUUBIACHOCOLAT
Pleasanton, CA

 November 12-17, 2012

Nuubia Chocolat will be celebrating Orangutan Caring Week by inviting the public to visit their store at 5673 W La Positas Blvd., Pleasanton,CA 94588. If you mention you are celebrating Orangutan Caring Week, the chocolatiers of this orangutan safe and exquisite chocolate will give you a Lolli, wonderful chocolate on a stick. Nuubia will be at OURF's Annual Fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Nov 17th. For more information visit Nuubiachocolat

OMAHA'S HENRY DOORLY ZOO
Omaha, NE
November 2012

To be announced

ORANG UTAN REPUBLIK FOUNDATION

Green Festival

Los Angeles, CA
November 17 & 18, 2012 - 10am-4pm

OURF will be participating in Green Festival in Los Angeles. Come before or after our Annual Fundraiser. We will be at booth 830a.  

Green Festival, the nation's largest and most diverse sustainability event returns to the LA Convention Center, located at 1201 S. Figueroa Street. Los Angeles Green Festival will offer not only an incredible sense of community but also the largest, most diverse and most trusted place for learning, shopping and having fun! Featuring an organic food court; an environmental film installation presented by the Sierra Club; hands-on DIY workshops; organic vegan and vegetarian cooking demonstrations; an organic beer and wine garden; live music; and, an incredible Green Marketplace for all of your holiday shopping needs, featuring products and services from local, regional and national green and sustainable businesses and organizations.

For More Information visit:http://www.greenfestivals.org/updates/green-festival-returns-to-los-angeles-november-17-18

OREGON ZOO
Portland, OR
November, 2012

To be announced

Fundraiser for ORANGUTAN OUTREACH at TROPICAL SALVAGE

2233 NW York Street

Portland, OR

Saturday, Nov. 10;  4-7 PM

Come on out and learn about wild orangutans and what you can do to help save them! Tropical Salvage (www.tropicalsalvage.com/) is hosting a fundraiser for Orangutan Outreach (www.redapes.org) to help save critical orangutan habitat. This year's theme for Orangutan Caring Week is "Safeguarding Habitat for a Secure Future"

At 5:00 pm, Dr. Meredith Bastian, Curator of Primates and Small Mammals at the Philadelphia Zoo, will be presenting on her 7 + years of orangutan field research in Indonesian Borneo. Following Dr. Bastian, Richard Zimmerman, the founding director of Orangutan Outreach, will give an update on Orangutan Outreach and our most current projects.

A suggested donation of $10adults/$5 students will be taken at the door.Light snacks will be served and beverages have been provided by Ninkasi Brewing.

For more information contact  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

10 AM – 2PM each day.

 -Bio Facts table with an orangutan and gibbon skull, gibbon hand, hopefully an orangutan hand, and printouts of orangutan hands and feet. This will allow the ZooTeens to talk about the arboreal nature of orangutans and how their specialized hands and feet make them so adept at moving through the trees. The teens at this table can also highlight some of the tool use observed in orangutans as well as the intelligence required to make tools and problem solve. 

-A, "How Do You Measure Up" activity where guests can compare their arm span to that of an orangutan. We've got a big orange fuzzy shirt with arms that, when suspended from two poles, will allow guests to stand in front of it, hold out their arms, and see how they "measure up." 

-An activity titled, "Let's Put Orangutans Back in the Forest." One of the ZooTeens is going to draw a forest on some butcher paper and using our orangutan stamps; kids can help 'put the orangutans back in the forest.' If they do that they then get a sticker of Michael as a reward! Again, this activity can be used to describe the plight of wild orangutans. 

-A table will be dedicated to the palm oil crisis. We've got brochures for guests that highlight which products or manufacturers don't use or use sustainable means when it comes to palm oil use. We'll also have posters printed out highlighting the palm oil crisis and the effect it's having on wild orangutan populations. 

-A "Make an Orangutan Diet" station. Here kids can put together what they think an orangutan's diet consists of. We'll also have a poster printed out showcasing what orangutans eat in the wild. Melanie is also buying a Durian fruit.

Phoenix Zoo- 455 North Galvin Parkway; Phoenix, AZ 85008

ROLLING HILLS WILDLIFE ADVENTURE
Salina, KS
November 10, 2012

Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure have scheduled “Go Orange for Orangutans Day” on Saturday, November 10, 2012. All guests that wear orange on that particular day receive a $2 discount on adult admission and $1 discount on child admission, or they can donate that amount back to us to be used towards the AZA Ape Tag Conservation Initiative. Our zookeepers are offering keeper chats at our orangutan exhibit, bio-fact carts will be set up, and guests also receive an Orangutan Fact Sheet.

For more information:  contact Debbie at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 625 N Hedville Road, Salina, KS 67401; Phone (785) 827-9488 ext 114; www.rollinghillswildlife.com

SACRAMENTO ZOO
Sacramento, CA
November 2012

To be announced

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TAMPA'S LAWRY PARK ZOO
Tampa, FL
November 2012

To be announced

VIRGINIA ZOO
Norfolk, VA
November  2012

 To be announced

  WASHINGTON, DC  

  PROTEST TO SAVE ORANGUTANS

  Washington, D.C.

  Friday, November 9, 2012

  11:00 am to 1:30 pm

March from Front of Zoo 3001 Connecticut Ave to Malaysian Embassy 3516 International Court, NW, Washington, DC 

For more information visit the Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/493085204036769

ZOO ATLANTA
Atlanta, GA
Sunday, Nov. 11 and Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012

 Activities from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.;  Keeper Q&A at 11 a.m.; Orangutan feeding at 2:15 p.m.

Highlights will include education stations; a keeper Q&A; orangutan feeding; and fun facts on orangutan diet, adaptations and enrichment. Special orangutan feedings will continue throughout the week.

For more information about Zoo Atlanta's event: http://eastatlanta.patch.com/articles/zoo-atlanta-celebrates-orangutan-caring-week

ZOO MIAMI
Miami, FL
Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012
10am-4pm

Zoo Miami Docents and the Conservation Teen Scientists will be hosting Orangutan Awareness Week, Nov. 17^th, 10am-4pm. There will be tables full of educational displays, biofacts, fun interactives, free temporary tattoos and more! Come learn all about our resident orangutans, Bonnie and Mango, at the Zookeeper Talk 11:30 am daily.
http://www.miamimetrozoo.com

United Kingdom

ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION, UK
London, England
Nov. 12-18, 2012

ORANGUTAN APPEAL UK
Brockenhurst, New Forest
Nov. 2012

To be announced

Individuals Planning to Take Action:

To be announced

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The following organizations are planning events for Orangutan Caring (Awareness) Week 2010. If you know of any events being planned that are not listed here, kindly inform us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   and we will post them. Download the low resolution or high resolution poster here. 

Location: Indonesia, Medan and surrounding areas in N. Sumatra

Organizations: Orangutan Caring Club-N. Sumatra, Sumatran Orangutan Society-OIC, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, and other members of the Sumatran Orangutan Consortium

Dates: November 7, 9, 13, 2010

Time: 10am

Event Details:

Sunday, November 7: Peace Rally at the Medan central city round-about. The week started with peaceful demonstrations and inspiring speeches with education materials and trees distributed to the public.

Tuesday, November 9: Coloring Contest for children at Republic of Indonesia Television Station (TVRI) in Medan.

Saturday, November 13: Tree-planting activities in Gunung Leuser National Park. Fruit and forest trees were planted by volunteers and local people from Bukit Lawang.

 For more information, contact CPOI-Sumut at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Location: Indonesia, Jakarta, Java

Organization: Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative Indonesia

Event Details: The Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative Indonesia will be celebrating Orangutan Caring Week and are in the process of planning events and activities. More details will be posted when available. 

Location: Indonesia, Ketapang and Sukadana, West Kalimantan

Organization: Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program

Dates: November 20-28, 2010

Event Details: While taking place slightly after the official Orangutan Caring Week, a series of awareness-raising rock concerts with local bands was held in Ketapang cafes on Nov. 20-21, followed by a music and theater performance on Nov. 23. On November 28, GPOCP youth volunteers dressed up as Orangutans and their forest friends, in our first animal parade through the streets of Sukadana.  For more information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Location: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

Organization: Zoo Negara

Dates: November 7-21, 2010
Times: TBA

Event Details: The volunteers from Way Out Experiences (WOX)  participated in Orangutan Awareness Week at Zoo Negara during a two-week hands on experience with orangutans and chimpanzees at the Zoo Ape Center. For more information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. :

Location: Finland, Helsinki

Organization: OURF and Orangutan Outreach Volunteers

Time: 5pm - 7:30pm

Place: Learning Centre, Aleksandria at Fabianinkatu 26, Room 230, 2nd Floor, University of Helsinki.

Event Details: Called the "Orangutan Awareness and Caring Afternoon", volunteers for the Orang Utan Republik Foundation and Orangutan Outreach  distributed information, displayed posters, and showed the moving film "GREEN", by Patrick Rouxel.  For more information, contact Isabel at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Location: Portugal, Porto

Organization: Sciences College of Porto

Dates: November 7-13 

Time: 7 pm (Monday-Friday); 5 pm (Saturday)

Place: Facultdade de Ciencias do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, Porto, Portugal 

Event Details: Volunteers for Orang Utan Republik Foundation conducted events at the Sciences College of Porto during Orangutan Caring Week. The films "GREEN" and "OrangRimba" were shown as well as exhibition in the college lobby. www.fc.up.pt/fcup/index.php .

Location: United Kingdom, Dublin, Ireland

 Organization: Dublin Zoo

Dates & Time: TBA

Event Details: Activities included face painting, mask making, orangutan enrichment demonstrations and an extra keeper was on hand both days to deliver talks regarding the plight of the orangutan in the wild and what people can do to help. Contact Susan O'Brien at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  for more information.

Location: United Kingdom, London, England

Organization: Orangutan Foundation, UK

Date: November 10 during Orangutan Awareness Week: November 7-13, 2010

Event Details: Orangutan Awareness Week takes place every November to draw attention to the challenges faced by wild orangutans and their rainforest home and to highlight how people can help.  To encourage the widest possible participation, the Orangutan Foundation names one day of Orangutan Awareness Week as Orange for Orangutan Day- a time when groups and individuals can demonstrate how much they care, by adding orange zest to everyday life! For more information, visit www.orangutan.org.uk or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for fundraising ideas and materials.

Location: Canada, Toronto

Organization: Toronto Zoo

Dates & Time: TBA

Event Details: Toronto Zoo docents was on hand to share orangutan information, biofacts and more. For more information visit www.torontozoo.com  

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Location: USA, Los Angeles, CA

Organization: USC Students

Dates: November 7-14
Time: TBA

Event Details: USC students interested in orangutans had planned to hold a variety of events including:

- Reading to Kids at a local elementary school: November 14.
- Hosting a booth on campus with posters and petitions
- Selling t-shirts to raise funds and raise awareness
- Showing orangutan films and
- Hosting a public lecture and panel discussion

More information will be posted when available.

Location: USA, Birmingham, AL

Organization: Birmingham Zoo

Dates & Times: TBA

Event Details: Docents and volunteers at the zoo celebrated Orangutan Caring/Awareness Week with their visitors. More details will be posted when they are available.

Location: USA, Tampa, FL

Organization: Lowry Park Zoo

Dates & Times: TBA

Event Details: Docents and volunteers at the Zoo celebrated Orangutan Caring/Awareness Week. More details will be posted when they are available. For more information visit www.lowryparkzoo.com

Location: USA, Wauchula, FL

Organization: Center for Great Apes

Dates & Times: TBA  

Event Details: Docents and volunteers at the Center will be celebrated Orangutan Caring/Awareness Week.  More details will be posted when they are available. Visit www.centerforgreatapes.org/

Location: USA, Miami, FL

Organization: Zoo Miami

Dates: November 13-14
Time: 10am-4pm

Event Details: Zoo Miami hosted Orangutan Awareness Week Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 10am-4pm. There were tables full of educational displays, biofacts, fun interactives, free temporary tattoos and more!  Resident orangutans, Bonnie and Mango, could be visited at the Zookeeper Talk 11:30am daily. For more information visit  www.miamimetrozoo.com

Location: USA, Chicago, Illinois

Organization: Brookfield Zoo

Dates: November 13 & 14

Time: 10 am-4:00 pm

Event Details: orangutan awareness with a weekend’s worth of orangutan-oriented activities. 

Visit Tropic World to learn fascinating orangutan facts, watch the zoo’s orangs in action, and find out how you measure up with the versatile ape. Kids can check out orangutan handprints, try on orangutan-sized mittens, and find out why the apes need large, strong hands. Special keeper chats offered at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. both days will provide insight into the orangutan’s name—Malay for “man of the forest”—and natural habitat, as well as details about the threats to the orangutan’s survival and simple ways you can help.

Location: USA, Racine, Wisconsin

Organization: Racine Zoo

Dates: November 13
Time: 11am-2pm

Event Details: Zookeepers hosted event activities Saturday, November 13. For more information, visit www.racinezoo.org 

Location: USA, Brownsville, TX

Organization: Gladys Porter Zoo

Dates and Times: TBA

Event Details: Docents and volunteers at the Zoo celebrated Orangutan Caring/Awareness Week.  More details will be posted when they are available. For more information visit http://gpz.org/

Location: USA, Houston, TX

Organization: Houston Zoo

Dates: 6-14 November

Event Details: International Orangutan Caring Week was observed globally from Nov. 6 to Nov. 14. During that period, the Houston Zoo's primate staff conducted a Meet the Keeper Talk at the Wortham World of Primates orangutan habitat. 

 Special Extras were held on Saturday and Sunday, November 6-7 from 9 AM -3 PM

In addition to the daily Keeper Talk at 2:30, the zoo had keepers at the orangutan habitat from 9a.m. - 3p.m. to chat with visitors and answer any questions. Visitor came to their booth to shop for painted magnets, photo note cards, and many other items. They also had beautiful, one-of-a-kind, orangutan-painted Christmas ornaments available for purchase. For more information, visit www.houstonzoo.org/international-orangutan-caring-week/ 

Location: USA, Waco, TX

Organization: Cameron Park Zoo

Dates and Times: TBA

Event Details: Docents and volunteers at the Zoo celebrated Orangutan Caring/Awareness Week.  More details will be posted when they are available. For more information visit www.cameronparkzoo.com/

Location: USA, Louisville, KY

Organization: Louisville Zoo

Date and Time: November 12-14, 2010; various times during the day.

Event Details: Experts predict that orangutans could be extinct in the remnant wild in 10 years.

On November 12-14, find out how you can help these magnificent animals during Louisville Zoo’s orangutan awareness weekend.

 Learn about these amazing creatures first hand, meet orangutan keepers, hear about the threats orangutans face in the wild and find out what you can do to help.

 Celebrate Segundo, our Sumatran Orangutan’s, 23 birthday Friday, November 12 at 2 p.m. in the Islands area complete with a banana cake with strawberry yogurt icing. On Saturday and Sunday see enrichment programs and learn all about orangutans from the people who know them best during special keeper talks at 10:15 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the Islands area. Docents will also be available Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Islands area with lots of interesting information, biofacts and more. The Zoo’s Youth Board will be offering face painting (for $1), sand art (for $2 and $4) and art magnets made by our orangutans (for $1 - $2) with a portion of the proceeds going directly to orangutan conservation Saturday and Sunday only.

 Orangutan Awareness Weekend is free with Zoo admission and for Zoo members.

Orangutans are considered one of the closet living relatives to humans, sharing 97 percent of the same DNA and are very intelligent. They have complex social relationships and are capable of forming strong social attachments. The bond formed between mother and offspring is particularly strong and results in the longest childhood (up to 10 years) of any ape species.

 Historically, orangutans were found throughout Southeast Asia and even as far north as China. But today with the rapid decline of their rainforest homes, orangutans live only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. It is estimated that suitable orangutan habitat in Malaysia and Sumatra has declined by more than 80 percent in the last two decades, and the wild population of Sumatran orangutans has dropped by nearly half.

 According to a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme in February 2007, the spread of palm oil plantations and illegal logging to the national parks in Indonesia constitutes a conservation emergency for the critically endangered orangutan. Palm oil is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative to trans fats, and is found in one of 10 supermarket products, including margarine, baked goods, sweets, detergents and lipsticks. There is also an increasing market for vegetable oil as a renewable fuel (biofuel), in response to the need to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions, and palm oil is currently considered the most productive source of biodiesel fuel. Organizations like the United Nations Environment Programme and the Indonesian government are working to find economically and environmentally responsible solutions.

 A free Orangutan-Friendly palm-oil shopping guide will also be made available this weekend indicating which companies use sustainable source palm oil.

 The Louisville Zoo participates in the Orangutan Species Survival Plan (SSP), which carefully manages and oversees all aspects of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) captive population of orangutans.  Louisville Zoo Supervisor of Animal Training Jane Anne Franklin is a member of the Orangutan SSP Steering Committee.

 The Louisville Zoo is home to four orangutans—females Bella, 25, and Amber, 22; and 22-year-old males Segundo and Teak.

 For more information about the Zoo visit www.louisvillezoo.org.

Check here to see where Orangutan Caring Week (9-15 November 2008) activities took place in Indonesia, the USA, and elsewhere internationally. Some events were delayed to the following week as part of Orangutan Awareness Week (16-22 November). We will list stories about the activities in this Blog section. If you held events this year, please email OUREI at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   with the photos and details so we can post your activities here.

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