Update – Magic Mike Dumbo Noo Deang Poppy Jum Pee and France
Did you know that the WFFT Wildlife Hospital treats over 1000 animals every year? Many of these animals are rehabilitated and released back to the wild.
Rescued – Ex- pet Golden Cat
‘Pu Yai Fai’ a male Asiatic golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) was illegally poached from the wild and spent the first two years of his life in a tiny cage. His owner decided to contact us and ask if we could give Pu Yai Fai a better future.
Wildlife trader on Facebook caught red-handed
Thai authorities seize clouded leopard carcasses, golden cat and leopard cat skins and other animal parts after a man offered wildlife for sale on Facebook. On 25 March 2019, The Department of National Park (Phaya Seua task force) in cooperation with police and military in Ratchaburi acted upon a tip…
Bear Cubs Confiscated After Joint Sting Operation
Transnational Illegal Wildlife Trade monitored by Joint Asian Networks (Some details, names and places are kept private to protect our investigation methods, staff and informants identities) With the upcoming WARN ASIA Online Illegal Wildlife Trade Monitoring Workshop on 21st and 22nd of January at Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, we are delighted to share…
International Gibbon Day 2018
Happy International Gibbon Day! Here is a compilation of stories for several of our rescued gibbons. https://youtu.be/se7jA9rOnJE
WFFT Rescue Team saves one more victim of human abuse & Illegal Wildlife Pet trade!
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 Pearl! Another Broken Soul who will Break your Heart
Just few weeks old! Separated from her mother! Took away from a life that every wild animal should have: away from human abuses... That is the sad story of our new rescue. We cannot say that we are happy to introduce you 'Pearl', a so cute female baby long-tailed macaque…
70 juvenile reptiles of various species were confiscated in Laos last week.
70 juvenile reptiles of various species were confiscated in Laos last week. Born and raised for a new growing and lucrative market in exotic pets. If you love animals, love them as they are, and let them remain in the wild. Please help these poor victims of the illegal wildlife…
Large Shipment Reptiles Seized in Laos
ກະລຸນນາກົດອ່ານພາສາລາວຂ້າງລຸ່ມ Earlier this week the Laos Wildlife Rescue Centre received call for help from the Laos Government regarding a large confiscation of animals at the Thai-Laos border. A man had tried to smuggle 70 juvenile reptiles of various species into Laos over the Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge, which crosses over the…
BoBo – The Southern Pig-tailed Macaque
Meet Bobo - a 5-year-old female Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) who had been kept as a pet for five years in Samut Songkhram, south of Bangkok. She was purchased illegally from Facebook for 5000THB when she was approximately 3 months old by international resident. The lady in question is…
Two Special Souls Saved in One Day
Yesterday two very special female macaques were rescued. Both had been kept as pets at separate locations in the city of Bangkok, their ‘owners’ had decided that they no longer wanted to care for them and had contacted WFFT for help. So yesterday the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Team headed to…
Welcome to Jubo and Jibi who have joined our growing otter community.
Last Sunday (the 27th of August 2017), a woman brought two small-clawed otters (Amblonyx cinereus) into the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre. A male named Jubo, and a female named Jibi. Both are 3 years old. Initially bought through social media by the older brother of the owner, he gave them to his sister…
Unwanted Pet ‘Tigger’ the Leopard Cat Arrives
Meet ‘Tigger’, the 6-month old female leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) who has been kept as a pet in a high rise apartment in Bangkok city centre after being purchased from the internet. As a very young kitten she was taken away from her mother so she could be sold into…
Ex-pet African Spurred Tortoises Arrive
Meet ‘Beatrice’ and ‘Ailsa’ the African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata), the third-largest species of tortoise in the world. They were rescued by a concerned citizen as infants almost 20 years ago from a Chinese food market in North East Thailand. Now at approximately 20 years old they are still young,…
Lao Authorities Confiscate 165 Pangolins, Arrest Wildlife Trafficker
Laos Wildlife Rescue Center, Ban Khuen (LWRC), Vientiane, Laos PDR On Tuesday 13th of December the Lao DOFI (Department of Forest Inspection) officials stopped two minivans on their way from the Mekong River bordering Thailand, after a tip-off. Inside both minivans the officials found a total of 165 Sunda pangolins…
CONSERVATION GROUPS WELCOMED INTENTION OF LAOS TO PHASE OUT TIGER FARMS
The announcement was made during the 67th Meeting of the Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to CITES in Johannesburg, South Africa. Tiger farms and captive tiger facilities in Laos, Vietnam,…
