The Orangutan Conservancy

🐒🌏 Happy first-ever International Colobine Monkey Day! 🌿 Today, we’re shining a spotlight on the incredible Asian colobines. These monkeys are true forest heroes, known for their leaf-eating habits, which help maintain the delicate balance of our ecosystems.
We have such a variety of colobine species in Malaysia, each occupying their own unique habitats 🌳

Today is International Orangutan Day. In this day, we celebrate orangutans and reaffirm our commitment to their conservation. Join us in raising awareness and taking action to ensure a future where orangutans can thrive in their natural habitats.

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We're thrilled to partner with Bubbles of Madness who created a luxurious soap that is crafted without palm oil, ensuring that no harm comes to the habitats of our precious orangutans.

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For each bar of the Rainforest Soap, half of all proceeds comes directly to the Orangutan Conservancy.

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We are excited to announce a new campaign to support firefighting efforts in orangutan habitats, and we need your help! Fires are a significant threat to these beautiful creatures, destroying their homes and putting their lives at risk. To combat this, we are launching a fundraising campaign with a goal to raise $4,000, which will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a generous donor. This means your contributions will have double the impact!

How You Can Help
🦧Donate: Every dollar you donate will be matched, doubling your impact. Whether it's $10 or $100, your contribution will make a difference.
🦧Spread the Word: Share this campaign with your friends, family, and social media networks. The more people we reach, the more support we can gather.
🦧Stay Informed: Follow our updates to see how your donations are making a real impact on the ground.

Your support is vital in ensuring that we can effectively fight fires and protect orangutan habitats. Together, we can make a significant impact and help secure a future for these incredible animals.

🌿🌍 Happy ! Today, let's shine a spotlight on orangutan conservation and the critical role these amazing creatures play in our planet's ecosystem. 🦧🌳 Orangutans are not just charismatic megafauna of South East Asia's rainforests; they are essential for its health and biodiversity. 🌿 But their habitats are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation and unsustainable practices. This World Environment Day, let's pledge to protect orangutans by advocating for sustainable land use, supporting conservation efforts, and making conscious choices to preserve our precious forests.

As fire season approaches, the threat to orangutan habitats intensifies. Our forests, their homes, are at risk of devastation.

🚫 Deforestation and climate change fuel the flames, endangering orangutans and countless other species.

📢 Spread awareness, support sustainable practices, and demand accountability from those responsible for the destruction of our precious rainforests.

🌿 Additionally, peatlands—crucial to orangutan habitats—are in jeopardy. These natural sponges, once resistant to fires, are now vulnerable due to human activity and climate change. Drainage for industries like logging and agriculture has left peatlands dry and highly flammable. With longer dry seasons and exacerbated by climate events like El Niño, peatland fires rage uncontrollably, threatening orangutan habitats from below and above ground.

🤝 Together, we can make a difference and protect the future of orangutans and their habitats. Consider supporting our efforts with a donation to help us combat these threats:

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Orangutans exhibit fascinating sexual dimorphism! 🦧 Unlike many other primates, Males are larger and develop distinctive cheek pads, known as flanges. Females, on the other hand, are smaller and lack these flanges, but they possess remarkable strength and dexterity, essential for life in the canopy. This unique dimorphism reflects the diverse strategies orangutans employ to thrive in their rainforest homes.

🌿🧡 On , take a moment to reflect on the orangutans, whose future hangs in the balance. 🌳 Habitat loss and illegal wildlife trade are pushing them towards extinction. It's crucial to spread awareness and support conservation efforts to ensure orangutans continue to roam our forests. 🦧🌿

Happy Mother's Day!

In honor of this Mother's Day we are highlighting the amazing responsibilities of orangutan mothers. Orangutan offspring have one of the longest childhood dependencies of any animal on earth! Male offspring will stay for up to 8 years, while females will continue to visit their moms until about 15 to 16 years of age.

Orangutan moms have a HUGE responsibility! They must teach their offspring how to survive by teaching them different skills like where to find food, how to eat, and even how to build a good nest.

Special thanks to Sintang Orangutan Center for this amazing picture!

An amazing solution to urban-wildlife coexistence and habitat fragmentation!

From tool use to medicine to emotion, orangutans are highly intelligent animals. The only way we can continue learning about them is to conserve their species, the environment they live in, and the ecosystem they are a part of. 🦧

Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

On (yesterday) we want to highlight our amazing partners in the field that work countless hours to rescue and rehabilitate orangutans. In the photos below, we are spotlighting the work of Sintang Orangutan Center!

Learn more: https://orangutan.com/project/

Come say hi! We are at Wild for the Planet at the Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens! 🦧

Come see us at the this weekend for “Wild for the Planet” 2024! 🦧🧡🌳

“It’s a celebration of our one precious planet and its rich biodiversity, featuring fun and inspiring activities, entertainment, and presentations. Learn about the Zoo’s conservation and sustainability efforts and what you can do to help.” - lazoo.org

It's officially Ape-ril aka Ape Awareness Month!

This month, we shine a spotlight on all apes - from the majestic gorillas and chimpanzees to the intelligent orangutans and the social bonobos, apes play a crucial role in maintaining the biodiversity of our planet's precious ecosystems.

🌳 How You Can Help:

-Educate yourself and others about the importance of apes and their habitats.
-Support conservation efforts by donating or volunteering.
-Reduce your carbon footprint to help fight climate change.
-Say no to products contributing to deforestation and habitat loss.
-Spread the word! Awareness is the first step towards change.

🌳🌿🦧 Today is International Day of Forests! The theme for this year is "forests and innovation"🌳🌿🦧

Forests cover one third of the Earth's land area and are critical to the survival of every creature that calls it home. Yet, these vital ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate due to deforestation, threatening the lives of orangutans and countless other species.

How can you help?
📢 Spread the word about the importance of forest conservation
💚 Support organizations working to protect forests and the species that live in them

Taylor may have won person of the year, but Eloise is our winner of *ape* of the year! 🦧

It’s ! The theme for this year is “Leveraging AI to Protect Orangutans and Global Diversity”.

“We believe it's a timely and powerful theme that showcases the intersection of cutting-edge technology and conservation. In a world where the challenges to biodiversity are increasing, AI stands as a formidable ally.” -orangutancaringweek.org

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The Orangutan Conservancy works to conserve orangutans and their rainforest homes by directly addressing the main threats to their survival: loss of habitat through deforestation & fires, illegal hunting, and the illegal pet trade.

OC is actively addressing these threats by funding initiatives such as the Sintang Orangutan Center's new X-Ray Machine! Some may recall that last year we took on a significant commitment with Sintang Orangutan Center to help them secure an x-ray machine at their facility in West Kalimantan. After a year of obstacles and challenges, the new machine is up and running, serving vital orangutan healthcare needs at the center.

Upon arrival to SOC, all orangutans must undergo an extensive health examination. The purpose of this examination is to ensure that any orangutan entering the center does not introduce any infectious disease to the other individuals. If the orangutan passes their initial health examination they are admitted to the center and will undergo a yearly examination thereafter. If at any point during their initial or yearly examination(s) an infectious disease or other medical ailment is found, the animal care team must effectively be able to treat the animal with the necessary equipment and medications.

Orangutans are also very prone to different types of respiratory ailments, so having an x-ray machine is vital to diagnosing and treating conditions early. This piece of equipment is the next step in caring for and conserving the wild populations of orangutans in their region of Southeast Asia. Sintang Orangutan Center has cared for more than 40 individual orangutans in the past 11 years, most of whom came from lives as private pets or as part of the illegal pet trade.

SOC X-Ray Update The Orangutan Conservancy (OC) is dedicated to the protection of orangutans in their natural habitat through wild research, capacity building, education and ...

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We hope you enjoyed following along with and that you learned something new! 🦧

? There are lots of great ways you can help care for our red ape friends at home? Check out the ways below!

Download the PalmOil Scan App from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on Google Play or Apple App Store and shop with sustainably sourced palm oil brands!

Follow Orangutan SSP to see all the exciting ways they are working to preserve and expand the species.

Follow & support The Orangutan Conservancy and the incredible impact they make protecting wild orangutans and expanding education on the species.

Come visit Dasa and Otis at the Erie Zoo and make a donation to the Joe Memorial fund through the box in the Orangutan Building. Proceeds benefit the Great Ape Heart Project, Orangutan Conservancy, and medical care of the Erie Zoo orangutan family.