Wani Care Foundation

On Sunday the 13th of September there will be a benefit concert to collect money for Wanicare. Soprano Brigitte van Hagen and pianist Jan van Wijk will perform the songs that visitors can select by voluntarily giving money for Wanicare. If you are interested please send an email. Hopefully it will be just as successful as last year!

The old cages for the Javaan Leaf monkeys (Lutungs) were not appropriate for their way of living. Normally the Lutungs spend ninety percent of their time in high trees, but because these Lutungs have lived in captivity, they have developed a different way of living and spend a lot of time on the ground. We assume that the consequence of this is that they are much more in contact with bacteria and fungus and might have caused a lot of illnes and even some of their deaths. That’s the reason why we decided to create a new cage for them. We have connected two existing cages and made them totally suitable for the living environment of the Lutungs. The cages are so big that we can place a lot more Lutungs together and create a whole new group of them. Eventually we want to release those groups in the wild.

Good news for our kasuari: we have made a new roof for them! The cages are in a very bad condition and the kasuari have no shelter when they are inside. First we constructed a new roof, so at least they can stay dry. We are now trying to collect money to renovate the other parts of the cages. Ultimately, it would be amazing to create greater living space for them by making new cages.