The WFFT recently got a call from the Kasetsart University In Hua Hin who wanted help with a young female Long Tailed Macaque that had been brought in for emergency surgery. Jeng, as she had been named, had been attacked by another macaque on the beach in Hua Hin. She…
In September 2005, a 10-month old female long-tailed macaque who was living on Khao Wang Mountain (otherwise known as Monkey Mountain) in Phetchaburi was rescued. The poor infant was suffering of congenital deformities - she was born without any legs, only one arm and a stump for her other arm.…
Last week we received a call for help from a team of people who help a troop of urban long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in the city of Bangkok. They had found a sub-adult male on the floor unable to move after he had fallen from a tree. The monkey carers…
A few days ago we welcomed a new species to the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre, an infant Banded langur (Presbytis femoralis). We received a call for help from a lady who had found this sick little infant monkey three days prior to contacting us. We were told he was found…
Yesterday we welcomed a very young male long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) to the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Centre. A few days ago we got a telephone call from someone who had been keeping him as a pet for 3 weeks after finding him in the Sireerukachart Botanical Garden, in Nakhon Pathom…
Yesterday we were called out to a monkey in urgent need of help. A wild adult male long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) had found refuge in a classroom of primary school after being electrocuted on exposed power lines. The school called us for help so the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Team headed…
On day two of the #HammockAmock Project we were lucky enough to find sometime to hand out some of the amazing new enrichments, the otters, bears and monkeys loved the new toys. Take a look here. Over the weekend we welcomed a team from @APE Malaysia and the @AirAsiaFoundation who…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
คำแถลงการณ์จากมูลนิธิเพื่อนสัตว์ป่า เรื่อง ลิงแสม “มะลิ” • เมื่อวันที่ 20 มกราคม 2561 ทางมูลนิธิได้รับการติดต่อจากเจ้าของลิงว่า มีสัตว์ป่าคุ้มครองชนิด ลิงแสม เพศเมีย ชื่อ มะลิ อายุ 3 ปี ต้องการมอบให้ทางมูลนิธิรับมาดูแล เนื่องจากลิงเริ่มมีอาการดุร้ายและกัดเจ้าของ บางครั้งมีอาการซึมเศร้า และเกรงว่ามะลิจะทำร้ายคนอื่นอีก อีกทั้งต้องการให้มะลิมีเพื่อน และมีความเป็นอยู่ที่ดีขึ้น • ทีมสัตวแพทย์ของทางมูลนิธิจึงเดินทางเข้าไปรับลิง ในวันที่ 21 มกราคม 2561 พบลิงแสมเพศเมีย รูปร่างอ้วน มีอาการเครียด ถูกล่ามเชือกไว้บริเวณเอวผูกกับต้นไม้ เจ้าของให้ข้อมูลว่า ได้ซื้อมะลิมาเมื่อ 3 ปีที่แล้ว โดยปกติมะลิจะถูกล่ามเชือกไว้ที่หน้าบ้านตอนกลางวัน ในเวลากลางคืนจะนำมะลิเข้าไปนอนในบ้านด้วยกัน และเคยฉีดยาคุมให้มะลิ 2 ครั้ง เพื่อลดความก้าวร้าว • เจ้าของได้เดินทางมาส่งมะลิด้วยกับทีมสัตวแพทย์ในวันนั้น มะลิถูกจัดอยู่ในกรง ในโซนเขตกักโรคเป็นเวลา 4 สัปดาห์ก่อน…
Remember Mali, a female long-tailed macaque rescued last month (full story here: https://www.wfft.org/wildlife-general/rescued-pet-mali-arrives-wfft-centre/), well, after a stay in our quarantine area (where all of our residents make a temporary stay) for observation and to adjust to her new environment, she has been moved to the side enclosure of the big…
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