Wani Care Foundation

Saturday the 14th of November 2009 we saved two gibbons from the hands of people who live in a little village two hours from Cikananga. In this area, unfortunately, a lot of gibbons are held by people who treat the gibbons poorly. A few years ago this area was still woody and a lot of wild animals were still living there, including the gibbon. Unfortunately huge parts of the forests were cut down and the parents of many baby gibbons were killed. The little baby gibbons were sold to people living in the surrounding villages. The gibbons we found are Dompoe, a five-year old female gibbon and the little two-year old baby Jollie. Little gibbon babies like Jollie should have constant care from their mother, but Jollie sadly never had this. Her owner had fastened her with a chain on a bamboo stick and had given her a little house where she could shelter. She was totally left to her fate. Luckily we were able to take these gibbons away from their horrible circumstances and hopefully we can offer them a good future again. We will introduce Dompoe and Jollie to each other and hopefully this will work out well and they can become buddies! At the moment they are not healthy at all: they are very thin and have a bad pelt, but with good nutrition with a lot of proteins they will hopefully be much stronger soon. If they are strong enough they will be brought to the Java gibbon centre in Bogor; more of our gibbons have been brought there. In this centre they will be socialized and they will learn how to take care of themselves when brought in nature. Eventually it is our goal to release them in the national park. Hopefully Dompoe and Jollie will be stronger soon!