2024
Orangutan Species Survival Plan
Husbandry Workshop
Are you passionate about ensuring the well-being of our critically endangered orangutan kin? Do you dedicate your days to providing them with the care, enrichment, and understanding they deserve? Then join us for this meeting of orangutan professionals at the Orangutan Husbandry Conference in Fresno, CA, August 18th-22nd, 2024.
Itinerary
- Welcoming and Icebreaker event
- Closed-door steering committee meetings
- Conference proceedings
- Banquet
- Silent Auction
- Zoo Day
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Hotel Information
Double Tree by Hilton
2233 Ventura Street, Fresno, CA 93721
(559) 268-1000
Room rate is $172.00 per night for Standard, King, or Double.
Price of room includes breakfast for 2 in the restaurant.
Reservations must be made by August 4, 2024 to receive this group rate.
Keynote Speakers
Ian Singleton
Dr Ian Singleton, OBE, is a former Zookeeper, having worked with a variety of different species at Whipsnade and Edinburgh zoos in the UK before becoming the orangutan keeper at Jersey Zoo, in the British Channel islands, in 1989. There he oversaw the construction of Jersey’s new orangutan islands enclosure, moving the orangutans in to the new exhibit in 1994. Ian later left the zoo world to study wild orangutans in the swamp forests of Aceh, Sumatra, for a PhD with the University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK, and in 2001 founded the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) based in Medan, North Sumatra, which he still oversees on behalf of the Indonesian NGO, Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari, and its Swiss-based supporter, PanEco Foundation. Today the SOCP is active in all aspects of orangutan conservation in Sumatra, including rescue, reintroduction, research and habitat protection, and also in a unique new project, the Orangutan Haven, to accommodate orangutans that cannot be released to the wild. The Orangutan Haven will be a major asset for education and recreation in the region. In recognition of his contribution to the environment and conservation Ian was honoured with the award of an OBE in 2020 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.