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Earth Month 2025: Our Power, Our Planet—Acting for a Livable Future - Environmental Blog Apr 2025

Posted 07 Apr 2025 in Environmental Blog , OURF Blog

During Earth Month—and especially on Earth Day, April 22, 2025—we are reminded that we share one planet, and with that ...

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The Center for Great Apes Sanctuary - Orangutan News Apr 2025

Posted 04 Apr 2025 in Orangutan News , OURF Blog , OURF Volunteers , Youth Ambassador Forum

by Jack Dalton, the Kid Conservationist.

A few weeks ago, I took a trip to The Center for Great Apes, ...

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$15,000 Prize Awarded to OURF - OURF Blog Dec 2024

Posted 01 Dec 2024 in OURF Blog , OURF News , Youth Ambassador Forum

by Jack Dalton, the Kid Conservationist. 

Cox Conserves Heroes is an environmental initiative from Cox Enterprises’ which recognizes ...

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Orangutan Conservation Pioneer Releases Memoir ‘Out of the Cage’: A Journey of 50 Years with Indonesia's "persons of the forest" - Environmental News Oct 2024

Posted 19 Oct 2024 in Environmental News , OURF Blog , OURF News

Santa Monica, CA — October 19, 2024 — Out of the Cage, the highly anticipated memoir by orangutan conservation expert ...

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Advocating for Orangutan Personhood: The Heartbreaking Story of Jimmy - Environmental Blog Oct 2024

Posted 01 Oct 2024 in Environmental Blog , OURF Blog

by Gary L. Shapiro, PhD.

In my book, Out of the Cage, ...

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Memories of 50 Years with Orangutans - OURF Blog Sep 2023

Posted 16 Sep 2023 in OURF Blog

by Gary L Shapiro, PhD, President OURF

In late 2011, as I walked down the 200-meter boardwalk to the Sekonyer ...

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