Colour It Orange

WHAT’S OUR FAVOURITE COLOUR? Orange! Because that’s the colour of orangutans. The orangutans would love it to become everybody’s favourite colour through AOP’s new educational tool for schools – Colour it Orange. Colour it Orange is a way for students, teachers and families to make a real difference by raising funds to help our environment – and, of course, to help our orange mates, the orangutans. We call it ‘fun raising’ because it is lots of fun for everyone! But, as well as being great fun, Colour it Orange is a serious educational tool and teaching aid. It’s focuses on learning about the environment, ...

Fun Times at North Adelaide Primary

I am a teacher at North Adelaide Primary School. In the school holidays my friends and I travelled to Malaysian Borneo and were privileged to observe up close many orangutans in rehabilitation centres. I soon became passionate about orangutans and their plight. Now I have a class of 24 Year One students who have become just as taken with orangutans as I am! At present our complete classroom program revolves around orangutans. The Adelaide Zoo orangutans have also provided a great stimulus for our learning. Kluet’s broken arm has been of great interest to the children since a child in ...

How To Adopt an Orangutan

Only 1 out of 6 orphans are lucky enough to be rescued - nearly 1,000 orphaned orangutans are living in rescue and rehabilitation centres. Care of these infants is costly and requires 24hr staff, veterinary, and nurse care to ensure they are in a healthy condition and have the best chance to survive – and possibly even return to the wild. For the small sum of $55 you can make a real difference and help these infants survive. All adoption money goes directly to helping infants at the various care centres we support in Malaysia and Indonesia. We are in regular contact with ...

Community - What our schools are doing!

Hahndorf Primary School in South Australia are enjoying the school visit program run by AOP Volunteer Helen Clifton. Helen is a qualified teacher with 3 years experience presenting conservation programs, who will come and speak to one or more classes at your school about bear species, their plight in the world and the work of organizations helping to save bears. In 2007 Helen joined forces with AOP and wrote a similar program looking at conservation issues, orangutans and the work of The Australian Orangutan Project. Her curriculum based school programs have already been successfully presented to over 330 classes across 65 ...

Colouring Competition Winner – ACT Event

Over 100 students from all around Canberra took part in the ACT kids colouring in competition. The quality of the kids works was fantastic which made judging incredibly difficult. The winner of the competition...

Orangutan Art

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Hahndorf Primary School raise $3000 to save Orangutans

Hahndorf Primary School, a small government primary school of just 200 students in south-east Adelaide has made a huge effort toward helping the critically endangered Orangutan species, fundraising almost...

St Brigid’s College Craft Work

Students in Year 3 at St Brigid’s College in WA studied Orangutans during term 2 in their Language and SOSE program. They let their creative flair shine and have produced Orangutans stitched onto ...

Lindisfarne Primary School Helps the Orangutan

Dear AOP We are a class of year 5 students aged 10-11 and have just adopted 2 orangutan (Beda and Ugo Blanco) to help your project. (Name: 5Jam-is-on< Nicola Jamison) Please see some of the scanned...