Meet Nui the elderly female Northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) that has been kept in solitary confinement for a staggering 19 years. She had been given to the people that were keeping her by some friends when she was just one-year-old. She will have been poached from the wild to…
Earlier this week the Wildlife Hospital Vet Team at WFFT Centre received a phone call from the Phetchaburi Livestock Department about a Bengal Slow Loris who had been electrocuted. Luckily this was on the rescue teams way back and they were able to make a slight detour and pick up…
Thong's Ten Years in a Trash Filled Shack is Over! Take a look at Thong’s journey to freedom! For more information about her story clic on this link: https://bit.ly/2I1stRG
Let us introduce you to Thong the highly endangered Northern white-cheeked gibbon, rescued by the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Team this morning. Her owners contacted us yesterday evening and asked us for help in providing her with a new more suitable home. We were informed by the owners that Thong had…
A few days ago two very weak and emaciated Sunda slow lorises (Nycticebus coucang) were brought into the WFFT Wildlife Hospital for urgent treatment by their owner. The lorises in question had been kept as pets for the last year after they were given to the lady by a family…
Last week we received a call from help from some veterinary colleagues at a pet hospital in Bangkok who had received a severely injured adult male long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) who had been found by a lady in Ayutthaya. She informed the staff at the Crystalpet Hospital in Bangkok that the monkey had…
Northern pig-tailed macaque Songkran has gone through her quarantine stage and has now moved next to a field where 12 other young macaques live. This is the next step in her rehabilitation, we hope that in time she will once again learn how to behave like a real monkey. So…
What is the is the next best think for orphan primates? = Contact with their owns species. Little Pearl the long-tailed macaque who was rescued in February has now become firm friends with even smaller Boon Ma. Having each other will help erase the bad memories from their unfortunate start…
A few days ago white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) Cosmo and Bridget, and their 3 offspring, Fino, Picasso and Milano moved to WFFT’s biggest Gibbon Rehabilitation Island ‘Island 8’. Our Gibbon Rehabilitation Islands provide a perfect naturalistic environment for gibbons that we rescue and aim to return back to the wild.…
Further to yesterdays video report on the rescue of George here is a selection of photographs from this very special day. See the full story and video at https://www.wfft.org/wildlife-general/giving-george-a-second-chance-after-7-years-in-a-crate/
When I started the Wildlife Friends Foundation in 2001 a lot of my friends and family said I was crazy, this kind of work was something for professionals and not for me. I still agree with one of the points they made, I am indeed crazy, crazy enough about animals…
Over the last few weeks we have seen a huge influx in wild animals in need of help particularly primates. Since the 1st of March we have rescued 33 animals, most of which are not release candidates so will require life-long care at the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre. Earlier today…
Here is the story of Somsri. A female Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) who is five-and-a-half-years old. The ‘owner’ of Somsri contacted WFFT to ask if we could provide a home for her after realising that they did not have the correct legal paperwork to keep her. She was kept for…
Meet ‘Ground’ the 8-month-old juvenile long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis). She was brought to us from Chonburi by a lady who was keeping her as a pet and was concerned about legal issues with a wild animal. We have received an endless amount of reports of animals in need since the…
This week a man brought two very young and weak infant Bengal slow lorises (Nycticebus bengalensis) into the WFFT Widlife Rescue Centre. He had heard about these animals being sold to Japanese tourists who had planned to illegally smuggle them to Japan and keep them as pets. They were purchased…
Recently, following the Mali case making headlines in the press, we received a lot of phone calls from people who learned that the possession of any wildlife is against the law in Thailand , even monkeys. Concerned by this knowledge owners realise they shouldn’t keep their pets just because they…
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