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May 23, 2011

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Tanjung Puting National Park in Borneo: How to get there, what to do and more
Washington Post
For accommodations on land: Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge Tanjung Puting National Park Borneo 011-62-361-74-74205 www.rimbalodge.com Comfortable rooms in wooden cabins on a boardwalk at the edge of the jungle. Rooms run from basic, with cold water and a fan ...

Posted: February 10, 2012, 12:59 am

TakePart

UN honors Mich. scouts for orangutan-saving effort
Chicago Tribune
The UN honored two 16-year-old Girl Scouts from southeastern Michigan on Thursday for their work aimed at saving orangutans from extinction. Madison Vorva of Plymouth and Rhiannon Tomtishen of nearby Ann Arbor received the first ever International ...
UN Honors Scouts for Orangutan-Saving ProjectABC News
UN honors 2 Michigan Girl Scouts for orangutan-saving effortDetroit Free Press
Girl Scout CookiesTakePart (blog)

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Posted: February 9, 2012, 9:16 pm

Bikya Masr

Orangutan twins get in the picture at long last
Hong Kong Standard
Bornean orangutan twins, the first to be bred in Hong Kong, are ready for their public debut today. Named Wah Wah and Wan Wan, the primates were taken away from their mother soon after birth when she failed to produce enough milk.
Baby orangutan twins make their debut at Hong Kong zooMonsters and Critics.com
Baby orangutan twins debut at Hong Kong zooBikya Masr
Bornean orangutan twins make public debut at HKZBG7thSpace Interactive (press release)

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Posted: February 9, 2012, 7:35 pm

LAist

Baby Orangutan's New Name: Inspired by Betty White!
People Magazine
The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association announced this week that a baby orangutan born at the Los Angeles Zoo has been named Elka, after the nonagenarian's Hot in Cleveland character, Elka Ostrovsky. White, who wrote about her passion for zoo in a book ...
Betty White Honored With Baby Orangutan Named After Her "Hot in Cleveland ...LAist

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Posted: February 9, 2012, 11:02 am

Denver zookeeper enlists team to save orangutan
The Oshkosh Northwestern
The 44-year-old Sumatran orangutan ate some oatmeal and peanut butter in the exhibit, studied people on the other side of the glass, and slipped her long fingers into a concrete barrel full of bubble-bath. She scooped up drifts of foam and ate it, ...
Sally, Sumatran Orangutan Living At The Denver Zoo, Has Life-Saving Surgery ...Huffington Post

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Posted: February 8, 2012, 10:11 pm

abc7.com

Betty White: Baby Orangutan Named After 'Hot In Cleveland' Character
Huffington Post
Introducing Elka, the baby orangutan named after Betty White's "Hot In Cleveland" character. The baby Elka's naming comes as an end to the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association's celebrations in honor of White, its co-chairman.
TV Land Names LA Zoo Baby Orangutan After Betty White's HOT IN CLEVELAND CharacterBroadway World
LA Zoo's baby orangutan named 'Elka' after Betty White's TV characterabc7.com
Ecollywood: Odds and endsMother Nature Network
NBC Los Angeles
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Posted: February 8, 2012, 6:05 pm

Visiting orangutans in the wild in Borneo
Washington Post
Instead, we decide to kick back and let the orangutans in Borneo's Tanjung Puting National Park come to us. The park is one of the best places in the world to see the endangered orangutan in the wild. With South Asia's tropical forests rapidly ...

Posted: February 8, 2012, 5:46 pm

Founder of Orangutan Appeal UK receives British MBE award
The Borneo Post
TUARAN: Sue Sheward, the founder and chairperson of the Orangutan Appeal UK, has been included in The Queen's New Year's Honours List and was awarded with an MBE for her work in protecting Asia's endangered primates. In an interview held during the ...

Posted: February 8, 2012, 1:39 am

Orangutans Eat Slow Lorises When Plants Are Scarce, Research Suggests (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Sumatran Orangutans are primarily vegetarians, but more evidence has emerged that some of the primates actually have a taste for meat. A female named Yet, only the fifth individual orangutan to be observed eating meat, was filmed devouring one of the ...

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Posted: February 7, 2012, 9:32 pm

AFP

Orangutan 'exterminators' on trial in Indonesia
AFP
TENGGARONG, Indonesia — Three Indonesians and a Malaysian went on trial Tuesday for killing endangered orangutans and other protected primates as a means of pest control at a palm oil plantation on Borneo island. Prosecutors said the plantation ...
Orangutan 'killers' on trial over slaughtering primates for pest control at ...Daily Mail
Indonesia: alleged orangutan killers face the judgeGlobalPost (blog)

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Posted: February 7, 2012, 12:00 pm

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Hong Kong - Two baby Bornean orangutan twins, the first to be bred in Hong Kong, made their public debut at the city's Zoological and Botanical Gardens Friday. But the brother and sister would not be seen with their mother, Raba, who has yet to ...
Posted: February 10, 2012, 6:48 am
Bornean orangutan twins, the first to be bred in Hong Kong, are ready for their public debut today. Named Wah Wah and Wan Wan, the primates were taken away from their mother soon after birth when she failed to produce enough milk. The twins were later ...
Posted: February 9, 2012, 7:14 pm
The U.N. is honoring two 16-year-old Girl Scouts for their work aimed at saving orangutans from extinction. Madison Vorva, of Plymouth, Michigan, and Rhiannon Tomtishen, of nearby Ann Arbor, on Thursday received the first ever International ...
Posted: February 9, 2012, 7:06 pm
Introducing Elka, the baby orangutan named after Betty White's "Hot In Cleveland" character. The baby Elka's naming comes as an end to the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association's celebrations in honor of White, its co-chairman. White has been ...
Posted: February 8, 2012, 6:32 pm
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Actress Betty White received a special gift for her birthday. She's now uniquely connected to a baby orangutan at the Los Angeles Zoo. The zoo's baby orangutan was named "Elka" after White's character on the TV show "Hot in Cleveland.
Posted: February 8, 2012, 4:45 pm
Three Indonesians and a Malaysian went on trial Tuesday for killing endangered orangutans and other protected primates as a means of pest control at a palm oil plantation on Borneo island. Prosecutors said the plantation manager, Malaysian ...
Posted: February 7, 2012, 12:21 pm
University of Colorado doctors had an unexpected patient on their operating table last summer -- a 44-year-old orangutan named Sally from the Denver Zoo. Sally was suffering from anemia and had a large infected tumor in her uterus, so Denver Zoo ...
Posted: February 6, 2012, 8:57 pm
Crashing through undergrowth, splashing through creeks, Cheryl Knott races to keep up with the 100-pound ape adroitly clambering through the lush canopy overhead. She’s following the wild orangutan, whom she calls Beth, through the Indonesian rain forest ...
Posted: February 3, 2012, 7:03 am
It’s a remarkable photograph: A pregnant orangutan protectively clutching her five-year-old child as death seems imminent at the hands of bounty hunters armed with knives. At the last minute, however, members of Four Paws, an international ...
Posted: January 28, 2012, 3:50 am
CLEVELAND - An orangutan at a Cleveland zoo has become the first such animal in North America to receive an implanted birth control device. The Plain Dealer reports that a Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist made a house call at the zoo ...
Posted: January 26, 2012, 9:36 am

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