Wani Care Foundation

The last month 3 volunteers that are following their education at Helicon, Velp in the Netherlands did a great job; They prepared a new cage for our panther Gugun. They made many new enrichment, planted trees bushes and many thinks where he can climb on.
Gugung looks very happy in his new aria, hopefully one day he will also have new friend to company him.
Jordy, Charissa and Janine thanks a lot for the hard an good work you did.

Charissa at work

New enrichment

New cage Gugun

Kittens in the clinic

Friday the 13^th of May was this time really an unlucky day! Two Leopard cat kittens where handed over to us. This after a men found them while he was in the forest near at Nyalindung. He thought the mother left the kittens because they were alone in the nest! He broth the two kittens to his house where he held them for one night. The next morning he didn’t know what to do with them and broth them to us! It’s so sad! The men thought he was helping the kittens, but what he really did was taking the kittens away from their mother! Probably on the moment he found the kittens the mother was looking for food. He didn’t know exactly where he found the kittens and besides that it was probably already to late to reintroduce the kittens to the mother again.
On the moment they are in our animal clinic where whey check their condition, weight and to see how they are eating. After we are sure they are healthy and eating/drinking good they will get a nice and big cage inside the park. We hope that they will grow quick so we can release them soon to their natural habitat.

Medical check-up

The education program (EE Program) of PPSC is running very well. More and more students are coming to Cikananga to learn about Indonesia’s endangered animals and their habitat .

Janine gives a presentation

The program aims to increase the knowledge regarding animal conservation, environmental values and welfare and behavior towards animals. Through the program students also learn about how to take care of animals and how the animals go through the rehabilitation process in the center. Did in the way of letting the children helping with giving food to the animals, making all kinds of enrichment and learning about the enrichment methods, Providing leaves and branches inside the cage and planting new trees in the area of Cikananga.

Janine playing games with the children from EE program

On May 5^th Al Jabr Elementary School from Jakarta visited Cikananga Wildlife Center to follow our EE program. They wanted to learn how rescue centers are organized, how to take care of animal from illegal trade, what the problems are where animal rescue centers struggling with, why you should not keep a wild animal as a pet, why nature is so important for all of us (animals and human).
Students became familiar in the; Don’t Keep Wild Animal as a Pet campaign through games and drawing a poster about Animals and Habitat. Janine, one of the volunteers from the Netherlands guides the children trough the games she made specially for our EE program. Next to that she cave a presentation about animal welfare and the 5 freedom rules for animals. The students were very enthusiastic and really did their best to learn as much as possible.

Happily we were able to confiscate to Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) again in the area of Nyalindung. Sunday 1^st of May we went to 4 owners where we knew of that they were keeping Macaques. 2 of the owners were willing to handing over the macaques.

1 female with the name Wience, se is around 3 years old but very small for her age, probably because of the pore diet the owner cave to her.

The other is a male with the name Kis he is around 4 years old. His condition is good. Unfortunately his has stereotype behavior: biting his self so badly that he has a few very nasty wounds! We have him now in our clinic where we treating his wounds twice a day. After the wounds are health good we will move him to our quarantine where also Engkis and Wience sitting on the moment. If we have the results of the blood tests, and TBC tests and this is negative we will move the 3 of them to our socialization cages and make a group of them.

From the other two owners that we visit, one of them was not at home so we will go there soon again. The other was at home but didn’t want to give the Macaque to us. Also to this man we will go back. The macaque is very aggressive and is sitting at a chain next to the road, so it is very dangers for the people who live there.

Story will be continued…..

A privet owner handed over a Barn Owl (Tyto alba) and a Reticulated Python (Python reticulates), Last Saturday April 30^th to PPSC.

The owl, who we gave the name Hedwig, is in good condition, after we did medical body check up, taking cloacae swab to test the owl on diseases and giving de-worming, vitamin supplement we put the owl in our quarantine. Where he will sit till we have the results from the laboratory back. After we are sure he has no diseases we hope that we can release him back to his natural habitat.

The condition of the python (that we give the name Kaka) is not very good, she is to skinny a little dehydrated and the condition of her skin is not very good. We keep Kaka for now in the clinic where we give her medical treatment and with a headlamp in her cage to improve here condition.
If she is in good condition and eating good again we will release her in her natural habitat. Happily with snakes this is the most of the time not so very difficult.