Reaching for the Canopy

Kylie Bullo

• Publisher: UWA Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781742587615
• eBook ISBN: 9781742588087

Reaching for the Canopy is the remarkable story of a bold, groundbreaking initiative undertaken by Kylie Bullo and her and her colleagues at Perth Zoo – an initiative that many experts believed was doomed to failure – to return a zoo-born orangutan to the wild. It proves that the right blend of passion, compassion and hard work can achieve what many thought was impossible. And it brings new hope to those fighting to bring this magnificent creature back from the brink of extinction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Prologue
• 1 Pets galore
• 2 Follow the Orange Brick Road
• 3 First impressions don’t lie
• 4 Conservation crusade
• 5 A new hope
• 6 All you need is love
• 7 The chosen one
• 8 Journey to Sumatra
• 9 Temara meets the jungle
• 10 Nocturnal swamp girl
• 11 Attack of the angry bees
• 12 Hooray, a flushing toilet
• 13 Jungle real estate
• 14 A rainy new year
• 15 Goodbye, Temara
• 16 Back to the real world
• 17 Attack of the lemur
• 18 Documentary, jungle style
• 19 Where’s the vomit bag?
• 20 Skin-tight white T-shirts
• 21 Sibling rivalry
• 22 The future
• Is there hope?
• Yes, you can help
• Notes
• Further reading
• Acknowledgements