Farewell orang-utans

Orang-utans will be missed: Indra, Horst and Intan is moving to Florida to help the captive breeding programme.

From City Scene, published on 12 July, 2009.

A public farewell for Bornean orang-utans, Indra, Horst and their daughter, Intan, will be held at Auckland Zoo next Sunday, 19 July.

The family is moving to Tampa, Florida to help the captive breeding programme. Bornean orang-utans are endangered in the wild due to rainforest destruction.

"Both Indra and Horst have been at the zoo for 25 years, and Intan was born here in 1989, so it will be really sad to see them go," says the zoo's primate team leader Amy Dixon (pictured with Indra).

Auckland Zoo will now have only six orang-utans.

Between 10.30am and 3pm people will get the chance to sign a farewell album, check out orang-utan conservation displays, and purchase paintings by Indra and Horst.