Love Redheads? Love Orangutans? Then this is for you!

After a successful Pozible campaign we have a beautiful 2015 Redheads for Orangutans Calendar available. Its  the perfect gift for your redhead friends or anyone really!

And what makes it even better is that profits from the sale of these Calendars goes directly to Orangutan Conservation efforts. I will be supporting two organisations: The Orangutan Health Project, based in Indonesia and The Orangutan Project of Australia.

Read on for some more info on why this is an awesome project to support!



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I'm a Redhead and this is for Orangutans.


Most people will be familiar with the threats our ginger-tinged cousins, the orangutans, currently face. We hear stories of lush tropical rain forests being burnt to the ground and dotted with tiny palm seedlings that grow fat nuts to provide us with oil. Of orangutan mothers hunted and killed for their young to be sold as pets and illegal logging where silent boats float down murky rivers piled high with ancient timber ready to be carved into a dining table.

In the past decade the number of orangutans in the wild has halved.





We share 97% of our DNA with these gentle Red Apes, and they face the very real threat of extinction.





I'm not sure if it is because my hair is RED but I've always had a very special place in my heart for orangutans. One look into their gentle intelligent eyes and I was done.

Since September (2014) I have been living in a small village in North Sumatra, Indonesia volunteering for 6 months as a Project Assistant with the The Orangutan Health Project (OHP). Established in 1999 by Dr Ivona Foitova, this organisation studies wild populations of Sumatran Orangutans, investigating special behaviours and ecological conditions necessary to combat parasitic infections and maintain health (like self medication through diet) and is the world’s only ongoing, long-term orangutan health research initiative.  The focus is the critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan, of which there are less than 6300 individuals left in the wild.

This centers research is used to aid rehabilitation programs by teaching reintroduced orangutans health practices similar to those of wild orangutans, enabling a higher chance of survival once they are on their own in the forest.



Having studied Conservation Biology (Bachelor of Conservation Biology with Honours in Botany), I am very interested in how we use research to aid conservation.
I am especially fascinated by OHP's research investigating the healing properties of plants and their utilisation by wild orangutans. This data can also be used to aid forest protection by bringing to light the importance of the biodiversity found in Indonesian rainforests. Dr Ivona is currently writing a book that documents plants found within the study area and their medicinal properties.



All profits will go towards Orangutan conservation efforts!

Below are some of the wonderful redheads.






If you are not in a position to help financially, sharing this page with friends, family and others you meet is a wonderful way to help!

Thank you xxx

Calendar profits  will go towards the work of The Orangutan Health Project (Indonesia) and The Orangutan Project (Australia)

Spreading the word! Help us help these beautiful apes.