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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #409: Orangutan Outreach

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Orangutan Outreach with Richard Zimmerman. In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, we discuss our love of red apes, what it's like to spend time with orangutans, and what we can do to help save the orangutans. This episode coincides with Orangutan Caring Week. Tranquility du Jour #409: Orangutan Outreach  

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Featured Guest: Richard Zimmerman

Richard Zimmerman founded Orangutan Outreach in 2007. The organization's goals are to bring attention to the crisis facing orangutans in the wild due to deforestation and the expansion of palm oil plantations into previously undisturbed areas of forest, and to raise funds for orangutan conservation projects in Borneo and Sumatra.
 
Orangutan Outreach collaborates with many partners including the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF), International Animal rescue (IAR), the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP), the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) and the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC). Orangutan Outreach has been able to successfully build a global grassroots network and help foster awareness of the plight of orangutans among people from every walk of life. This awareness has led to a steady growth in charitable donations and virtual orangutan adoptions. By offering people everywhere the chance to get involved and do their part to help protect orangutans, Orangutan Outreach has brought renewed hope that together we can save the red apes.
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0:00.0

Tranquility DeJure, November 14th, 2017.

0:09.0

Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 409th edition of Tranquility

0:15.3

DeJure. So today we're chatting with the founder of orangutan outreach, Richard Zimmerman.

0:22.6

So in this week's edition, we discuss our love of red apes, what it's like to actually spend time with orangutans, and what we can do to help save them.

0:34.3

And this episode coincides with orangutan caring week, which is happening all week,

0:39.5

and you can find out more about that at orangutan caringweek.org. Now, in this episode, we chat about

0:47.4

a baby orangutan recently born at Washington, D.C. Zoo. And although I'm not a fan of animals in captivity, Richard encouraged me to

0:58.6

go visit this little baby and gave me a lot of reason why it was actually important to visit him

1:05.5

at the National Zoo. So you'll hear about that in the episode, but you'll also see in the show notes a little

1:11.8

photo of Baby Red. So within a few days, I was up at the zoo, eager to meet Little Baby Red,

1:18.4

and he is adorable. So those of you in the DCR, if you have a chance to get over to the

1:24.4

DC Zoo to visit Red, you will not be disappointed.

1:35.1

And I wanted to also share a piece that I wrote about my love of monkeys for HTC10.

1:42.3

So HTC10 is the ebook that came out at the end of 2016 to honor Hptrinclin Chicks,

1:44.5

my first book's 10-year anniversary.

1:50.7

So this is a piece from it all about monkeys and my love of them.

1:54.6

So after watching Gorillas in the Mist as a young girl, I idolized women who devoted their lives and souls to a cause, especially animals.

2:03.5

In college, my boyfriend John gifted me with an annual zoo pass. One Sunday, he picked me up for our regular 45-minute jaunt to the Oklahoma

2:10.1

City Zoo, and I came bounding down the sorority's grand staircase in a charteroose blue shift dress

2:17.1

and a straw hat with colorful Guatemalan trim

2:20.7

glued around the rim. Immediately I could tell we were having a different experience. I had my

2:27.5

camera loaded with fresh film along with an extra roll for the baby orangutan mango and a huge smile on my face. I could think of no place I'd

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