Programs

2025 Orkney Park's Environmental Education Program

Saturday, September 20 at 10:00am
Wednesday, September 24 at 5:00pm

Email orkneyparkprograms@gmail.com with questions.
Follow us at https://www.facebook.com/OrkneyPark and @orkneyparkproject

Registration must include one adult per family. There is no bathroom available at the park; please plan accordingly.

This program is generously sponsored by Penn Treaty Special Services District.

Saving the Red Ape: A Glimpse at Wild Orangutan Life and Conservation

Thursday, October 9th at 7:00pm (rain date 10/30)

In some ways, wild orangutans are a lot like humans - they can adapt to very low food environments and have their first offspring at a later age. In other ways, wild orangutans are different from all the other great apes. They're also critically endangered and could be extinct within the next 50 to 100 years if humans don't figure out a way to reverse damage to their habitats. Come learn all about these baffling great red apes and what you can do from home to support their survival.

Email orkneyparkprograms@gmail.com with questions.
Follow us at https://www.facebook.com/OrkneyPark and @orkneyparkproject

There is no bathroom available at the park; please plan accordingly.

This program is generously sponsored by Penn Treaty Special Services District.

Dr. Andrea DiGiorgio is a Biological Anthropologist who studies the spaces where humans and non-human primates interact. Her research includes studies about what wild orangutans eat and how this can be used to improve captive orangutan diets, and how wild orangutans react to food scarcity and increasingly frequent and intense fires. Dr. DiGiorgio also studies how social media content impacts primate and wildlife conservation.