Wani Care Foundation

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.