Wanicare Foundation

At the moment we are arranging the translocation of our lovely orang utans Noni and Dodo.
We have been in contact with Lone Droscher-Nielsen from Orang utang Rehabilitation Centre at Nyaru Menteng and have discussed the opportunities for Noni and Dodo. In Nyaru Menteng there is place for our orang utans and Lone loves to help us by giving them a good place. Moreover, she will help us financially with their transport. Of course we are very thank ful for this. Now, we are waiting for the permit-papers from the forestry departments. As soon as we get these papers we can arrange a date to move Noni and Dodo to Nyaru Menteng.
I will miss Noni and Dodo very much, but of course we are very happy that they go back to their own habitat where they actually belong.   I am sure they will be very happy there.

Our Gibbon couple Coen, Nuk, and their baby Willi moved  to the Javan Gibbon Centre in Bogor.
Hopefully in a while they will soon be released in wild.

At the 29th of March we picked up Bimbi the siamang at Sukabumi. He lived in the backyard in a very tiny cage and his condition was very bad: he had a rubber string around his neck and because of this his neck was very infected and he had difficulties with his respiration.

At Cikananga we treated his wound and a few days later it looked already much better. Only his respiration was still a problem. We tried all kinds of medicines but nothing seemed to help. Apart from this  his coundition seemed to be fine. He was very happy in his new cage next to the other siamangs. He was active and  was eating very well, but unfortunately after a while it was clear he wasn’t recovering as much as we’d expected: there was still something wrong. Very sadly he died  after six weeks, even though he had a lot of medical care. An autopsy made clear that his whole body was full of bleedings and his troath was very damaged. We are feeling very sad because of the death of Bimbi. His future was looking so well. We had planned to bring Bimbi together with the other siamangs  to a rehabilitation centre in Sumatra.  Unfortunately this will never  happen for Bimbi.