February 4, 2008 - Santa Monica, CA.  Registered users of OUREI's website (www.orangutanrepublik.org) will be able to access back issues of Suara Orangutan, or Voice of the Orangutan in Bahasa Indonesia, the official newsletter of OUREI. OUREI will continue to post its newsletter in pdf format approximately 3 months after its initial hardcopy release to contributors to OUREI.

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January 17, 2008 - Santa Monica, CA.  The Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative (OUREI) has partnered with Go to Indo, a San Francisco based travel agency, to provide an exciting 2-week ecotour adventure to North Sumatra hosted by OUREI Chairman, Dr. Gary Shapiro. The ground tour begins August 16 in Medan, Sumatra and ends August 29 in Cecurug, Java.

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December 10, 2007 - NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia launched a program on Monday to save its dwindling orangutan population, the last of Asia's great apes, from the brink of extinction by protecting its vast tropical rain forests.

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December 8, 2007 - Bali, Indonesia.  Vast tracts of tropical rainforests will be protected under a declaration signed last night by the governor of Brazil's Amazonas state and his counterparts from the Indonesian provinces of Aceh, Papua and West Papua.

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December 4, 2007 - Bali, Indonesia.  Protecting tropical forests would be the breakthrough that could best help combat climate change, billionaire businessman Richard Branson and Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai say.

 

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