Rescuing Macaques Egg & Makhuea from Koh Samui

A few days ago, our rescue team travelled to the tourist island of Koh Samui to rescue two macaques. One of them is Egg, a former coconut picking monkey who still had his collar on when he arrived at our sanctuary.

Egg was kept for nine years by his previous owner, and we are grateful to them for handing Egg over to us so he can have a better life. He is estimated to be around 15–20 years old. He has spent a very long time separated from his own species and kept on a chain. This is an incredibly sad life for an intelligent primate, and Egg has a long rehabilitation journey ahead of him to learn how to be a macaque again. Egg is a northern pig-tailed macaque, a species vulnerable to extinction.

WFFT is working to phase out the use of monkeys in the coconut industry. Egg will need ongoing veterinary care and sanctuary for the rest of his life. We cannot do this without you.

During the same mission, our team also rescued Makhuea, an abandoned stump-tailed macaque in very poor condition.

Estimated to be just four to five years old, Makhuea already looks much older. He is frail and underweight. Stump-tailed macaques are not native to Koh Samui, which means he was almost certainly kept in captivity before being abandoned.

He had no chance of survival. Dumping a captive primate into an unfamiliar environment is often a death sentence.

Makhuea now needs urgent veterinary care, proper nutrition, and a safe place to begin his rehabilitation.

Please help us give Egg and Makhuea a second chance at life by donating today.