Orangutan Species Survival Plan (SSP)©

2012 Field Advisor Updates

Ronda Schwetz –Zoo Director, Henry Vilas Zoo

To create and expand partnerships with orangutan rehabilitation centers, field researchers and zoos in Indonesia and Malaysia

The Goals:

Provide medical/enrichment supplies

and offer assistance with medical,

enrichment, training, and husbandry

initiatives at each site

The Goals:

Create and expand an exchange

between professionals

The Goals:

Create and expand local and

international educational programs

The Goals:

Sites visited 2008-2012

Indonesian

Sites:

Nyaru Menteng

Samboja Lestari

SOCP

2012- Ketapang

2012 – Tanjung

Puting

Malaysian Sites:

Zoo Negara

HUTAN-KOCP

Sepilok

Matang

Semenggoh

Indonesia/Malaysia

Zoo Negara

Lower Kinabatangan

Samboja Lestari

Tanjung Puting

SOCP

Matang – Semenggoh

Nyaru Menteng

Ketapang

Past Sites: Samboja Lestari/Wanariset

Enrichment projects

Maintenance projects

Donations of supplies

Keeper exchange (2010 Orangutan SSP Workshop)

Past Sites: Nyaru Menteng

Past Sites: SOCP…

Donations of

medical and

enrichment

supplies

Development of

enrichment

projects

Keeper exchange

(2010 Orangutan

SSP Workshop)

Past Sites: KL – Zoo Negara…

Workshop

Enrichment

Termite mound

Sepilok

HUTAN

WOX/REACT

Past Sites: Sabah…

Matang

Semenggoh

Past Sites: Sarawak…

Providing supplies and money

Sharing ideas and resources

2012 Orangutan SSP Field Trip

Matang Wildlife

Centre – Malaysia

Return to present

workshop, training

and enrichment

2012 Orangutan SSP Field Trip

Ketapang

Orangutan

Rehabilitation

Centre

Veterinary year

long exchange

Supplies donations

Needs

assessments

2012 Orangutan SSP Field Trip

Tanjung Putting Home to 6,000

orangutans

Oil-palm plantations

border the entire

northern and eastern

borders of the Park

and are encroaching

Mining for gold and

zircon threatens the

western border of the

Park and the river

ecosystem

Thanks to the following medical

donations:

Brookfield Zoo

Como Zoo

Fossil Rim Wildlife

Center

Henry Vilas Zoo

Milwaukee County

Zoo

Minnesota Zoo

Seneca Park Zoo

UC – Davis

Virginia Zoo

Ronda Schwetz, Orangutan SSP Field Advisor

Schwetz@countyofdane.com

Thanks for

5 Years of

Support!!!