It is just under a week until I take off on my first visit to meet some school students in Queensland, Australia.

I can't wait to meet them as everyone thinks I'm gorgeous and I always get loads of cuddles.   I'm hoping the students I meet will spend some time learning about the Deforestaction project and how important it is that we do something now to make sure that my orangutan friends in the forest don't become extinct.   Did you know that so much forest is being cleared in Borneo that orangutans are now critically endangered?   I think that's sad.

I'm going to spend the week posting some blog entries so that the students who I visit can learn more.   But for now, I thought I'd show you a video of the orangutan I am named after.  

The real Fio is an orphaned orangutan in the BOS Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center.   His family was killed when the forest and palm oil companies came in to clear the trees they lived in to make way for palm oil plantations.

As you'll see, Fio is rather cute.   He may even be as cute as me.   I'll let you decide.