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Come to Indonesia with me! June 2026 --- Book Now! - OURF News Dec 2025

Posted 01 Dec 2025 in OURF News , Youth Ambassador Forum

In October 2022, I visited the Indonesian rainforest for the first time. On this journey, Garry Sundin of Orangutan Odysseys …

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Join the 2026 Orangutan Educational Ecotour - OURF Blog Sep 2025

Posted 01 Sep 2025 in OURF Blog , OURF News

The Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF), in partnership with Orangutan Odysseys, invites you to take part …

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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 20 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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Memories of 50 Years with Orangutans - OURF Blog Sep 2023

Posted 17 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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