http://www.wanicare.com Currenlty working for animal rescue centre PPSC Indonesia Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:08:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_465" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cebus and Nicty"][/caption] On May 22 and 23 PPSC rescued 3 Slow lorises (Nyctitebus Javanicus). Two are from Bandung. We were contacted by a student who had recently attended a study weekend here in Cikananga. A friend of his bought two slow lorises at the market, and ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/05/three-slow-lorises-rescued-by-ppsc/ Our macaques, Boss and Joko are sitting together in the Socialisation area, since we moved them there on May 12. For the first few days we caged them separately but next to each other so they could be in contact but not hurt each other. They were, from ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/05/boss-and-joko-moved-to-socialisation-area/ [caption id="attachment_462" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Nessie the new otter"][/caption] On May 13, a one year old Asian short clawed otter arrived at Cikananga.  Nessie is his name. Nessie has been fostered by Ruth since he was six weeks old. He was found on the road by security guards in a housing ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/05/nessie-the-otter/ [caption id="attachment_438" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="body check"][/caption] After a much waiting, we finally got permission from the forestry department to release our Reticulated Python (Python reticulates) and keeled Rat Snake (Ptyas carinatus) in Cikepuh national park, West Java. Together with two members of the forestry department we left Cikananga on the afternoon ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/05/ppsc-release-snakes/ http://www.wanicare.com/2010/05/cikananga-wildlife-center-movie/ With the donation of the Triodos Foundation we are able to prepare the isolation and quarantine section in the park of PPSC. This aria’s where not in use for a long time, this because there was not enough money for testing the animals on diseases. Now with the big improvement PPSC ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/05/many-thanks-to-the-triodos-foundation/ Two Long tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) were rescued on March, 19th 2010 in Sukamanah, Cisaat-Sukabumi by PPSC. We confiscate these two animals form an men that was already familiar for us!!! In November last year we visit this man to confiscate a Java Gibbon. Unfortunately we where at ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/05/two-macaques-rescued/ On March 17 David van Gennep (director of AAP) visit PPSC in Cikananga. To see with his own eyes how the progress of PPSC is going. It was for us a big honour to welcome David in Cikananga. We showed him around in the park of PPSC. David was very enthusiastic ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/03/stichting-aap-visit-ppsc-in-cikananga/ Wanicare has received a great donation from the Triodos Foundation (the Netherlands) of 5000 Euro! This is the biggest donation that wanicare ever received and we are more than grateful for that! Therefore, we want to thank the Triodos Foundation for their trust in Wanicare and for their great support. http://www.wanicare.com/2010/02/big-donation-from-the-triodos-foundation/ Recently, Wanicare and AOC groene Welle (Zwolle, the Netherlands) have agreed on an opportunity for students to follow an internship at PPSC Cikananga. A great means for them to build up experience in working with wildlife and for us a way to generate help from people who are learning to ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/02/wildlife-internship-for-students-at-ppsc/ As you all could have read in the update of our website of July 2009, we were very busy to arrange the translocation of our orang-utans Noni and Dodo to the rehabilitation centre in Nyarumenteng in Kalimantan. All the paper work in order to get approval from the goverment had ... http://www.wanicare.com/2010/02/again-bad-news-for-orang-utans-noni-and-dodo/ 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 ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/11/two-gibbons-have-been-saved/ In the beginning of 2009 I have written a letter to Stichting Aap with the question whether they would be interested to help Wanicare and PPSC by means of sponsoring or advice. Resit (PPSC Cikananga) and I were very happy to get the opportunity from Stichting AAP to talk about ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/11/great-news-from-stichting-aap/ Sunday the 20th of September, I will leave again to Indonesia. I will be there for three months and will work at the Cikananga animal rescue  center again. Hopefully we can do even more work than has been done last period! http://www.wanicare.com/2009/09/willemijn-leaves-for-indonesia/ Recently Wanicare has received some amazing donations of medicines: the company MERIAL (that has animal health as one of its goals) donated us omec that helps agains ecto-and endo parasites. We can use this for almost al our animals! Moreover, the Apenheul (a zoo in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands) donated us Suprelorin ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/09/great-donation-of-medicines/