Thank you to each and everyone of you who have helped us get through these terrible times. Will this crisis ever end? It seems Thailand’s borders will remain closed for the forcible future leaving us with an uncertain future. No guests and no volunteers mean no funds to run our…
Two days ago courageous Canoe the recently rescued chimpanzee walked on soil, climbed trees and looked at the sky for the first time. This handsome boy amazed us all with his courage. Canoe has settled in to his new spacious home. Some of you may have followed the live…
Highlights of this week feature gibbons, elephants, boars, a loris, a juvenile macaque, and domestic animals. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRQapO8haww&feature=youtu.be
Here’s a very cute demonstration of the basic differences between monkeys and apes! No apes have tails while most monkeys do. Apes also tend to swing from branch to branch while monkeys tend to jump and run along them. Mee Na is a 6 month old white handed gibbon and…
International Orangutan Day was a few days ago but for Maggie & Chico, every day is Orangutan Day! Every day is a promise of a better life, far from their past before their rescue by WFFT! Every day is an opportunity to celebrate! Every day is a party! Have a…
Happy International Orangutan Day! Here are some images of one of WFFT’s orangutan residents , Chico, enjoying a playful water moment in the new large open enclosure he is sharing with Maggie. This enclosure is a suitable environment for these very special intelligent great apes, and a constant source of…
Having finally agreed to hand over the animals, after months of negotiations and changes of mind, the WFFT Rescue Team had to act as quickly as possible before the Abbot had another change of heart. The rescue team are well experienced in handling all the various species, but have never…
Check out the full story here: https://www.wfft.org/wildlife-general/and-the-orangutans-are-out/
Yesterday rescued orangutans Maggie and Chico spent their first morning out exploring their new special habitat here at the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre. Having spent the first two years of their lives at WFFT going on daily forest walks with surrogate father Shawn and his team this is an enormous…
WFFT’s resident great apes, Maggie and Chico the critically endangered orangutans, are now much closer to their wonderful new home. We have moved them from their old night enclosure to a new side enclosure connected to the new huge open forest area we have created for them. During the move…
Project 4, as well as shaping up to be a new promised land for rescued elephants, is also part of the Gibbons Rehabilitation Programs with its different islands. These islands were created to aid with the rehabilitation of the gibbons rescued by WFFT, far from human interference. Their diet is…
In the coming weeks Chico and Maggie should be able to move to their new luxury and adapted enclosure. Especially designed for them, they will first have adapt in its side enclosure. But have a look at how incredibly entertaining this place looks. Lots and lots of enrichments, space, ...…
Let’s introduce you to Burma, our new pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) resident.The pileated gibbon is listed as endangered by IUCN. He is 38 years old!! which is a very impressive age for these apes! Usually, in captivity, the maximum age for this gibbon species is 34 years! Burma’s owner, took…
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
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.…
WFFT's rescued great apes Maggie and Chico are on the move 2018! Since their arrival in 2016 they have been going to forest school sessions in the Khao Luk Chang Temple forest close to the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre. As they become larger and get closer to adulthood we must…