Orangutan News
Movies
Monday July 6, 2009
Mom At Sixteen
(2005) Seven, noon
Back To The Planet Of The Apes
(1981) Seven HD, noon
The Falcon Out West
(1944) ABC1, 2.05am (Wed)Sporting Life
Tuesday November 11, 2008
IT'S World Orangutan Caring Week. Yes, that's right. And while the most dedicated activists are out saving the rainforests that the planet's highest-profile red-haired animals like to inhabit, we thought we could help raise awareness by paying homage to redheads in sport. They're a special bunch when you consider National Geographic's report that they make up less than 2% of the world's population. Yesterday, Australia's flame-topped sporting IT man Steve Hooker talked us through the business of ...Pay Tv
Monday September 8, 2008
Rome
Showcase, 8.30pm
Departures: Jordan
NatGeo Adventure, 8.30pm
Orangutan Island
Animal Planet, 7.30pmBooks
Saturday May 10, 2008
Troubling thoughts
THINKERS OF THE JUNGLE: The orangutan report
Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal
H.F. Ullman, $59.95Shelf Life - What's New
Tuesday March 27, 2007
1 The Little Munchkins five-piece melamine dinner set comes with mug, bowl, plate, fork and spoon in three designs, Flopsy the cow, Spike the orangutan and Toot the owl. $14.95 from House. Stockists: 1300 136 936.Orphaned Orangutan In School
Tuesday July 19, 2005
SCHOOL'S in and lessons include climbing, finding fruit and exercising. The classroom is a jungle and the students monkey around all the time.A Race Against Time
Sunday November 7, 2004
Willie Smits is working desperately to save the wild orangutan from extinction. He has only three years, writes Annie Lawson.
Dr Willie Smits will give public lectures at the Australian Museum, Sydney on Tuesday, the Australian National University, Canberra, on Wednesday, and Melbourne University, Melbourne, on Saturday. Visit www.orangutans.com.au for information.Green Ban Dilemma For Zoo
Saturday April 10, 1993
SYDNEYSIDERS have been given the stark choice between saving the endangered orangutan species or a piece of harbour foreshore bushland. Unionists have threatened to place a green ban on a proposed housing development site earmarked to finance a multi-million-dollar orang-utan exhibit at TaZsa Zsa Goes Ape Over Policeman
Sunday November 26, 1989
ACTRESS Zsa Zsa Gabor, who is appealing against a jail sentence for slapping a policeman, Paul Kramer, has taken her revenge. She has bought a stuffed orangutan and named it - Paul Kramer. During the trial, she said: "I can't believe that in a country as great as ours a 6ft 4in