Orana Wildlife Park

Date: 3 Aug 2005 - 03 Aug 2005

From: Wellington Zoo Centenary oral history project

By: Turton, Joanne Helen, 1961-

Reference: OHInt-0803-13

Description: Interview with Jo (Joanne) Turton, born Westport 1961. Talks about her family background and education and coping with dyslexia. Refers to working as a nurse aid in geriatric care and then on a farm near Ashburton. Describes starting as a trainee keeper at Orana Park Zoo, Christchurch, in 1990 and finding it her ideal job. Recalls she started work with birds and worked round to the more dangerous animals. Discusses moving on from Orana because she really wanted to work with apes, and going to Wellington Zoo for work experience where she was employed in 1994 to care for chimpanzees. Refers to primate keepers Russell McKeen and Graham Strachan and former keeper Frank Coles. Discusses the small cages in Wellington Zoo at the time and the conditions for animals not being as good as at Orana. Refers to the monkey islands which gave the monkeys a much healthier environment than concrete cages, and the spider monkeys now behaving naturally. Discusses the chimpanzees, their enclosure and the breeding programme. Comments on enrichment programmes for the animals and the need to provide stimulation for chimpanzees. Refers to the reaction of the baboons when they were transferred to a natural enclosure. Outlines a trip to Africa where she spent a month on safari and went to a chimpanzee rescue centre, Sweetwaters, near Nairobi. Refers to meeting Jane Goodall at Wellington Zoo. Mentions working at San Deigo Zoo with orang-utans and at a rescue centre near Houston. Outlines work experience with gibbons in a zoo in Cambodia. Refers to a planned trip to Africa to the Entebee Rescue Centre, and to the Mona Foundation chimpanzee rescue centre in Spain. Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014693 - OHC-014694 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5297. Photocopy of B&W photograph of Jo Turton and Jane Goodall Search dates: 1961 - 1994 - 2005

Date: 1990-1999

From: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand

By: Auckland Zoological Park; Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World; New Zealand Herpetological Society Inc.; Orana Wildlife Park; Staglands Limited; Wellington Zoological Gardens

Reference: Eph-A-ZOO-1990/1999

Description: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand from the 1990s. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 35 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 2006-2016

From: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand

By: Auckland Zoological Park; Hawke's Bay Aquarium; Orana Wildlife Park; Staglands Limited; Wellington Zoological Gardens; Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-ZOO-2006/2016

Description: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand from the period 2006 to 2016. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 58 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 2000-2005

From: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand

By: Auckland Zoological Park; Hawke's Bay Aquarium; Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World; Orana Wildlife Park; Puhaka Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre; Staglands Limited; Wellington Zoological Gardens

Reference: Eph-A-ZOO-2000/2005

Description: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand from the period 2000 to 2005. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 36 pieces of ephemera.

Date: [ca 1920s]-1989

From: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand

By: Auckland Zoological Park; Marineland (Mount Maunganui, N.Z.); Marineland of New Zealand (Napier, N.Z.); Orana Wildlife Park; Staglands Limited; Wellington Zoological Gardens

Reference: Eph-A-ZOO-1920s/1989

Description: Ephemera of octavo size relating to zoos and zoological gardens in New Zealand from the period circa 1920s to 1989. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 20 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016161

Description: Shows three gorillas doing a haka - 'Ka mate! Ka mate!' The title reads 'Getting with NZ culture' Refers to critically endangered western lowland gorillas who will soon nest at New Zealand's Orana Wildlife Park as it works on building a habitat for the primates. The Christchurch park's chief executive Lynn Anderson said the project would be the first for New Zealand as gorillas have not been in the country before. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0016363

Description: Two very cool-looking lions tell a couple of flirty girls on the ferry that they are fans of the South. One of them has the text 'I (heart symbol for 'love') the Maneland' on his black singlet and the other has the text 'Pride of the South'. Context; 'It's mission accomplished for Malik and Zulu, two five year old male Lions that are on a one year breeding loan to Orana Wildlife Park from Wellington Zoo. In June, two lionesses produced five cubs - the first Lion cubs to be born at Orana in five years'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016160

Description: Several gorillas clamber about on buses, as someone offscreen comments 'and they've saved a heap in landscape costs'. The cartoonist suggests that old and dangerous buses could be used to house the gorillas coming to Orana Park. Refers to critically endangered western lowland gorillas that will soon nest at New Zealand's Orana Wildlife Park as it works on building a habitat for the primates. The Christchurch park's chief executive Lynn Anderson said the project would be the first for New Zealand as gorillas have not been in the country before. Refers also to the police dismay at the condition of Christchurch's bus fleet after a sting operation resulted in 28 buses being pulled from the streets. Faults were found on another 34 buses, which were ordered to be repaired. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016162

Description: Shows three gorillas as Canterbury rugby players. Someone offscreen says 'Forget Orana Park It's Canterbury first, then a call-up for the All Blacks!' Refers to critically endangered western lowland gorillas who could soon nest at New Zealand's Orana Wildlife Park as it works on building a habitat for the primates. The Christchurch park's chief executive Lynn Anderson said the project would be the first for New Zealand as gorillas have not been in the country before. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025036

Description: Orana Wildlife Park 'lodge' sleeps passengers from Christchurch airport with no accommodation and who would otherwise sleep at the terminal. The Park staff think that 'they get free accommodation and we have a new paying exhibit!' They have also put up a notice: 'Cheapskates - Do not feed'. Is this a solution to airport 'night kippers'? The shortage of accommodation in Christchurch due to earthquake damage led many air travellers to sleep overnight at the air terminal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).