- Welcome from Dr. Gary Shapiro
- Mobile Education & Conservation Unit (MECU) Team 1: 2011
- Adult female Bornean orangutan and infant
- Two ecotourists enjoy the trip upriver
- Ecotourist Jesse meets Siswi at Camp Leakey
- Ecotour group poses in front of tree with enormous flying buttress
- Ecotourists enjoying dinner on the kelotok
- Sophie having dessert with other ecotourists
- Adult male Bornean orangutan
- Greening of Wedding ceremony
- Orangutan Caring Club presentation at school
- Abdul, subadult male Sumatran orangutan: killed by a local farmer
- Adolescent female Bornean orangutan in tree
- Juvenile Bornean orangutan in tree
- Gary Shapiro and Princess orangutan in Tanjung Puting National Park
- MECU program: assessing young trees at a botanical nursery
- MECU program: preparing the young trees for transport
- MECU program: choosing young trees to plant
- MECU program: distributing young trees
- MECU program: carrying young trees to a planting area
- MECU program: carrying young trees to a planting area
- MECU program: preparing the ground for planting
- MECU program: preparing the ground for planting
- MECU program: tree successfully planted
- MECU program: satisfaction after planting a tree
- MECU program: villagers and Caring Club members
- MECU program: villagers and Caring Club members
- MECU program: cleaning the MECU vehicle
- MECU program: cleaning the MECU vehicle
- MECU program: lunchtime after finishing work
- MECU program: lunchtime at the river
- MECU program: more trees needing to be planted
Dr. Gary Shapiro Welcomes You
Fifth Annual Pongo Environmental Awards to Honor Environmental Achievement and to Benefit Critically Endangered Orangutans
28 August 2018 - SANTA MONICA Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) will honor environmental achievement from television, science, and advocacy at the 5th Annual Pongo Environmental Awards to be held on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at the Bergamot Station Art Galleries in Santa Monica, CA.
The annual fundraiser will host a special screening of Animal Planet’s “Raised Human” episode “Princess the Orangutan.” Princess and OURF President Dr. Gary Shapiro became well-acquainted in the jungles of Indonesian Borneo in the late 1970s when she was home-reared and taught sign language by Dr. Shapiro.
Efforts to Protect Vanishing Orangutans Get Infusion of $200K
9 August 2018 - Santa Monica, CA - Orang Utan Republik Foundation. The Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) announces that, in its role as the USA chapter of Australia-based The Orangutan Project (TOP), it is disbursing $200,000 to a dozen programs that are racing to protect critically-endangered orangutans on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra. The grants administered by TOP to eleven organizations will support wildlife warden positions, ecosystem protection, veterinary care, orangutan rescue, post-release monitoring, research, and other initiatives aimed at curbing population loss in this vulnerable species.
Latest News
- July 20, 2018 - Inaugural Orangutan Caring Scholarships Awarded in Central Kalimantan
- February 7, 2018 - Orangutan Dies After Being Shot 130 Times
- January 1, 2018 - Orangutan Caring Scholarship - Dr. Tague & Fredericka Jacks
- November 5, 2017 - Scientists announce discovery of third orangutan species
- October 30, 2017 - Orangutan Caring Week 2017 - Nov 12th - 18th
- September 4, 2017 - Fourth Annual Pongo Environmental Awards to Honor Achievement in Film, Science, Conservation and Technology
- June 3, 2017 - Orangutan Caring Scholarships 2017
- March 6, 2017 - MECU 7 Adds New Activities and Expands to New Village
- January 1, 2017 - Orphaned Orangutan, Lana, finds his Freedom in the Forests of East Kalimantan
- September 30, 2016 - Third Annual Pongo Environmental Awards and Benefit a Success
