2024 in a nutshell
Not everything that happens in a year makes it into the annual report. Here you can flick through the brief overviews of the events, news and highlights that didn’t get prime coverage but were no less important.
At the beginning of the year, Dek Nong moved into the Orangutan Haven, exploring her island and new home for the first time.
Last year, there was increased exchange between the environmental education teams. As part of this, a delegation from the three Indonesian environmental education centres and the Orangutan Haven visited us in Switzerland.
A class at Bülach vocational school held a street campaign about palm oil. Our visitors from Indonesia were fascinated by the commitment of the young people.
In the province of North Sumatra in Indonesia, we appointed high school students as ambassadors for nature conservation for the second time.
The young female orangutan Wenda was sighted in July with her offspring in the rainforest in Jantho. The young animal is a bearer of hope for its species.
In August, we transferred six orangutans from the rescue and rehabilitation station to the reintroduction station in Jambi, Sumatra. The image shows their transport boxes being prepared.
Ramo was the victim of a mudslide and was found stuck in the mud and completely exhausted. Since then, the young female has been cared for in the rescue and rehabilitation station.
The new Suaq Ecotrail is the third ecotrail in the Orangutan Haven. On the trails, visitors experience the various ecosystems in which Sumatran orangutans live.
The female orangutan Hope died after a stroke. The death of this blind orangutan, who was severely traumatised and stayed five years with us, moved us deeply.
Our orangutan expert Dr Ian Singleton visited Switzerland as part of a lecture series at the beginning of November. He visited several cities to provide insight into PanEco’s projects for the protection of orangutans in Indonesia.
At the end of November, several heavy landslides destroyed large parts of our rescue and rehabilitation station on Sumatra. They were caused by prolonged heavy rainfall.
