This year, the Orangutan Awareness Week is getting very exciting. In this video for instance, the Art for Gorillas team from the Art of Conservation Project joined their counterparts, the Orangutan Foundation, in celebrating this very important week for the conservation of the great apes by recording a message of goodwill. It is a great show of solidarity from people who work for the conservation of one species of great apes in the heart of Africa to those that conserve another ape species thousands of miles away in Borneo.
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Orangutan Awareness Week - 10-16 Nov 2008
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This week from Monday 10 November to Sunday 16 November, the Orangutan Foundation will be celebrating the Orangutan Awareness Week. This is a tradition started ten years ago to provide a forum for individuals and organizations to actively participate in spreading awareness and raising funds for the conservation of the Orangutan, Asia's only great ape.
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There is a place in Indonesian Borneo where "every place is a school, and every person is a teacher". That place is Kampung Konservasi (Indonesian for Conservation Village). Kampung Konservasi is an integrated environmental learning facility ran by Yayorin (Yayasan Orangutan Indonesia) at the city of Pangkalan Bun in Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.
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