3 Endangered Elongated tortoises rescued from the cooking pot
A concerned local has rescued three endangered elongated tortoises (Indotestudo elongata) after he found them at a friend’s house destined for the dinner plate. The person who planned to eat the tortoises had initially purchased six from a market and already eaten three of them. Luckily the kind man stepped…
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
First 5 tigers have been removed from the tiger temple by Thai authorities overnight. The expoitation, illegal trade and torture is going to stop. ADDED 5 hours after our first post: An organisation in Australia is claiming we breached a "media blackout" by posting a tweet this morning on the…
Finally free after ten years in chains….
Yesterday we received a call about a macaque in need of help, so this morning the WFFT Rescue Team headed out to assess the situation. The macaque in question is 'Mam', a 10-year-old adult female long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), most likely caught from the wild as an infant to be…
3 Slow Loris and a baby Common Palm Civet Rescued
Three adult Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) and a common palm civet kitten (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) have been brought into the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre. The lady who brought them to WFFT had found them being kept by friends after being purchased via Facebook, she informed her friends about the work…
Update – Tiger Temple – Is it nearing the end of the sanctuary of hell………?
The Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand is pleased to see that National Geographic has presented to the world evidence concerning the disgraceful actions of the Tiger Temple Thailand. The evidence presented has been collected over many years by numerous individuals and organizations, which have tried to expose the atrocities behind closed…
Slow loris dies shortly after arrival
A few days ago a slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) was brought for urgent medical treatment. He had been found in the garden of a concerned local who had kept him for 1 month prior contacting us. Sadly he died shortly after arrival. The results of the postmortem found that…
WFFT New Otter Complex
We are almost half way through the construction of the new WFFT Otter Complex. We are creating a large open field enclosure on the 'Mid Lands' area of the WFFT Rescue Centre. The new enclosure will have two large pools, waterfalls, streams and specially constructed burrows and dens to…
Ivory openly for sale in Phuket
Our WFFT founder Edwin Wiek is currently in Phuket and has visited a few jewelry shops and outlets and found that ivory is openly sold to foreign tourists, especially Chinese citizens. This is contrary to Thailand's promise to stop the illegal ivory trade, and shows once again that a "legal"…
Sugar glider handed over to WFFT
A female sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) named 'Kong Kang' has been handed over to WFFT after her owner decided that she needed better care. Kong Kang was purchased as a pet 2.5 years ago and has spent the majority of her time in a very small cage. As you can…
UPDATE ON TIGER TEMPLE!
On Wednesday the 19th of January the last talks will be held between the Ministry of National Resources and Department of National Parks (DNP) and the tiger temple. These talks will be probably resulting in the removal of at least 75 tigers from the temple to a Government rescue center.…
10 Freshwater Turtles Return Back to the Wild.
Today we released 10 freshwater turtles that have spent some time at the WFFT Wildlife Rescue after being rescued due to varying circumstances. Concerned members of the public often bring turtles to us after finding them in a road or in their gardens. After being given the all clear by…
A reticulated python returns to the forest.
A few days ago a large reticulated python (Python reticulatus) was found in the Gibbon Rehabilitation Forest at the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre. For his own safety and for the safety of the animals in our care we made the decision to re-locate this beautiful snake to a more suitable…
