Orangutan Caring Week 2007 Activities
Check here to see where Orangutan Caring Week (4-10 November 2007) activities were scheduled to take place in Indonesia, the USA, and elsewhere internationally. We will list stories about the activities in this Blog section. If you held an event this year, please email your story and images to OUREI at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the details so we can post your activities here.
Download the 2007 Orangutan Caring Week poster here
Indonesia
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Medan, Sumatra: The Sumatran Orangutan Education Consortium (SOEC) held numerous events and activities during the week including: video displays and table events in malls and other public venues, radio talk shows, banners around the city, educational activities in nearby villages, lectures at local universities, and a fair with contests and a peace march.
displays set up at the photo fair at the Islamic University of North Sumatra
Members of the Sumatran Orangutan Education Consortium pass out information and meet with visitors to Sun Plaza Mall, Medan
Lectures and seminars were presented at the University of North Sumatran, the Islamic University of North Sumatra, the University of Medan North Sumatra by educators, conservationists, and scientists of the universities, NGOs, and the Consortium.
Films were shown to classrooms of students and specially composed music was played as well.
Presenters and participants were recognized for their contributions to PPO-III
Masrizal Saraan provided the above images. For more information about the Consortium and its activities, contact Susilo Sudarman at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Gunung Palung, West Kalimantan: Yayasan Palung was to have celebrated Orangutan Caring Week by distributing posters and pamphlets to the public, playing environmental music, performing puppet shows, and holding a puppet contest for the grade school children.
Posters that were produced and distributed by members of the Palung Foundation for Orangutan Caring Week.
For more information, contact Hudi Wuryanto at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Ubud, Bali: Monday, November 5, 6pm. Sumatran Orangutan Society hosted a dinner and showed "Losing Tomorrow", a moving and informative documentary by Patrick Rouxel. Some 50 attendees participated in the event.
SOS Founder Lucy Wisdom addresses audience in Ubud after showing the film, Losing Tomorrow (far right). Balinese style orangutan costume greets members of the audience. Photos courtesy of Inggriani Shapiro.
Contact SOS at http://www.orangutans-sos.org/ for more information and a beautiful downloadable poster.
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Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan: YAYORIN (Orangutan Foundation Indonesia) had planned a week long set of activities including art contests, film presentations, a peace march, talk show, carnival, and awards ceremony. We will post photos and stories from the event when available. For more information contact Togu Simorangkir @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan: Friends of Tanjung Puting National Park had planned to hold a seminar for Orangutan Caring Week featuring an official from Indonesia's Science Institute (LIPI), the Bupati of Kotawaringin Barat, the head of Tanjung Puting National Park, and the leader of Friends of the National Park. The seminar was to have examined policies and management strategies to protect Tanjung Puting National Park, home to 6,000 orangutans. We will post photos and information regarding that event when available. For more information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
USA
California
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Los Angeles: Monday-Friday, November 5-9. The Indonesian Consulate participated in Orangutan Caring Week. Displays and information were placed in the first floor foyer. Numerous people took notice of the displays and requested further information about orangutans and their plight. The Consulate is located at 3457 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010. For more information, contact the Culture and Information section at 213-383-5126.
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San Diego: Saturday, November 10, 8:30am-5pm. So. California Primate Research Forum presented "Asian Primates in Perspective" with 5 presentations by primate researchers. OUREI had a poster display at the event located in the Arts and Letters Building 201 on the San Diego State University campus. For more information about the event visit: http://scprf.ucsd.edu/SCPRFcurrent.html
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Santa Monica: Sunday, November 4, 11:30am. Every week is Orangutan Caring Week for OUREI, however, OUREI celebrated this special week at the Santa Monica Farmer's Market by bringing in additional information and graphics and explaining the importance of the occasion to numerous visitors.
Pennsylvania
- Reading: Reading Public Museum Gift Shop, 500 Museum Road, Reading, PA 19611. Artist Jason Shanaman displayed his beautiful orangutan sculptures and distributed information packets about orangutans to the public. Sales of Jason's orangutan sculptures will benefit OUREI's programs. For more information on Jason's sculptures, visit his website at orangsculptor.foliosnap.com/
Texas
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Houston: Houston Zoo held its Orangutan Caring Week activities on the weekends of Nov 10 & 11 and 17 & 18 during regular zoo hours. A booth was set up at the orangutan exhibit where visitors were able to learn about orangutans and purchase orangutan artwork stationery. Two paintings created by the Houston orangutans were raffled off at the zoo and online to help raise funds for conservation activities at Kinabatangan Reserve in Sabah, Malaysia. For more information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and visit www.houstonzoo.org
Australia
- Brisbane: Wednesday & Saturday, November 7 & 10, Brisbane chapter of Australian Orangutan Project (AOP) hosted an information stall at Brisbane Central Station and a fun-filled Trivia Night at Kenmore State School. We will post photos and stories from the event when available. For more information, contact Marion at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Melbourne: Friends of the Melbourne Zoo are hosted a pre-OCW tabling event on October 28 at the zoo's "Super Discovery Table Day" where they raised awareness about the Sumatran Orangutan. We will post photos and information about the event when available. For more information, contact Maureen Bathgate at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Melbourne: Saturday & Sunday, November 10 & 11, Melbourne Zoo hosted a weekend event which will included:
- Orang-utan conservation presentation
- Kids 'orang-utan nest building' games
- Sustainable timber presentation
- Orang-utan training presentation
- Orang-utan photos and paintings for sale with all profits to Flora and Fauna International CRU in Sumatra
- Displays of orang-utan diet and enrichment
We will post information and images from the event when made available. For more information, contact Fiona at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Perth: The Western chapter of Australian Orangutan Project (AOP) held 3 days of Orangutan Awareness (Nov 1-3) at the Garden City Shopping Centre in the Perth suburb of Booragoon. We will post photos and information from that event when made available. For more information, contact Bill Waterer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
United Kingdom
- London: The Orangutan Foundation UK held Orangutan Awareness Week from November 12-18. Nick and Oscar, the organization's orangutan costumes was out and about helping to raises funds and awareness. Cake sale, sponsored walks, runs, book sales and a children's poster contest with some nice prizes provided a mixture of fundraising and fun activities. We will post images and stories from that event when made available. For more information, contact Ellie at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Oxford: The Sumatran Orangutan Society UK in conjunction with Roots & Shoots, the Indonesia Society, and Oxford University students, was to have hosted activities including an information booth in the City Centre (Saturday, November 3), a lecture by Dr Susan Cheyne entitled, "Orangutans: saving the man of the forest" (Wednesday November 7 at 8pm, Linnacre College (Tanner Room)); film presentations, and a lecture by Madelaine Westwood, Executive Director of the Great Ape Film Initiative (GAFI). We will post images and stories from that event when made available. For more information, contact Panut at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.