I do behavioural and environmental enrichment for orangutans in an Australian zoo. I want to go to Indonesia and help teach local people how to make enrichment items from cheap materials for the orangutans in zoos there, because they need it even more than ours do.
I have already started this process. I’m communicating with people who can help me achieve my goal. In a couple of months I’m travelling to another city to speak with the people there who are involved.
Over the next couple of years I will need to raise the money, and I can approach my workplace for support and maybe even sponsorship. I will need to learn to speak some Indonesian.
Meanwhile I want to raise direct funds for enrichment in Medan Zoo, Indonesia. The mammal keeper at Medan Zoo is very interested in enrichment and deserves our support for the fantastic enrichment work he does with the animals under his care.
TheMightyNellie's Life List
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1. Grow my nails
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2. Walk the Larapinta Trail
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3. learn to play the accordion
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4. see a volcano
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5. guerilla gardening
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6. Visit Japan
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7. Donate blood
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8. Learn the lyrics to Clandestino
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9. Learn the lyrics to Ta Douleur
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10. Learn the lyrics to Janine I, II and III
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11. volunteer in Indonesia teaching locals how to make behavioural enrichment items for orangutans
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12. learn how to tango
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13. write a novel
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14. Learn to sew
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15. Record my own CD
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16. Do 50 pushups
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17. Blog every week
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18. Finish my degree
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19. Get to the advanced level in my belly dance classes
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20. learn Hungarian
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21. learn french
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22. Become fluent in more than one language
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23. have better posture
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24. Eat More Greens
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25. Go back to Europe next year
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Well, not sure how I’ll get there. Trying to hitch a lift with someone.
I haven’t been to Confest in over a decade, and I think it’s just what I need.
Somehow, I’ll get there.
