A Gibbon love story from Cambodia
Happy Valentine's Day! Love happens in the animal kingdom too, especially amongst species who mate for life! Here's an incredible love story from a Cambodian forest: Pileated Gibbons Nangali-soka and Karuna, met and fell in love! Male gibbon Nangali-soka lives in Uddom Srae Puos Forest in Kampong Speu province. He was regularly seen swinging through the trees with his mate, until [...]
World’s most beautiful primates rescued from illegal wildlife trade
What lives in the trees, has a blue face, is identified by its legs, and spends its days munching on leaves? A black-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nigripes), that’s what! Meet You-bee, a douc langur orphaned by the illegal wildlife trade. The Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team rescued the adorable 6-week old from people who were exploiting her in YouTube videos after a concerned [...]
Plight of the Primates in the illegal wildlife trade
When we rescued You-bee in February, one black-shanked Douc langur was a surprise. So imagine our shock when over the following four months we received a further three! With only 25 individual douc langurs rescued over the last 10 years, and then this year six in five months, it brings great concern about how and why we have [...]
Southeast Asia’s thriving illegal bird trade
Living out the rest of your life crammed in a cage in a dark, damp room; this is the reality of life for the millions of birds that are being trafficked as part of Southeast Asia’s thriving illegal wildlife trade. Photos taken by our Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) whilst on an operation in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, captured a [...]
Adventure awaits in the Amazon of Asia!
How can you reach the Wildlife Release Station? Approximately seven kilometres outside of a quaint little riverside village named Chi Phat you will find our Wildlife Release Station in Koh Kong. Nestled in the ‘Amazon of Asia’, or the Cardamom Mountains, you will find this rustic little station operating to release animals confiscated from illegal wildlife traffickers back into the wild, [...]
Monster’s Nursery Update Number 5!
For those that have not seen my previous posts, my name is Monster - just like Frankenstein’s monster -not a scary one! I will be reporting to you twice a month about the activities at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center Nursery! I am a northern pig-tailed macaque and was actually born at Phnom Tamao, but shortly after I was born [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Love happens in the animal kingdom too, especially amongst species who mate for life! […]
What lives in the trees, has a blue face, is identified by its legs, and spends its days munching […]
When we rescued You-bee in February, one black-shanked Douc langur was […]
Living out the rest of your life crammed in a cage in a dark, damp room; this is the reality of […]
How can you reach the Wildlife Release Station?
Approximately seven kilometres outside of a quaint little riverside village […]
For those that have not seen my previous posts, my name is Monster – just like Frankenstein’s monster -not a scary […]