http://www.wanicare.com Currenlty working for animal rescue centre PPSC Indonesia Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:47:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ The benefit concert was again a great success! Willemijn informed the visitors about all the work that has been done the last year in the animal rescue centre in Cikananga. After that Brigitte van Hagen and Jan van Wijk gave an amazing performance. Wanicare collected a great amount of money that ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/09/benefit-concert-a-big-success/ 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 ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/08/benefit-concert/ 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 ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/08/new-cage-for-javaan-leaf-monkeys/ 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 ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/08/new-roof-for-our-kasuari/ At the moment we are arranging the translocation of our lovely orang utans Noni and Dodo. We have been in contact with Lone Droscher-Nielsen from Orang utang Rehabilitation Centre at Nyaru Menteng and have discussed the opportunities for Noni and Dodo. In Nyaru Menteng there is place for our orang utans ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/07/noni-and-dodo-back-to-kalimantan/ Our Gibbon couple Coen, Nuk, and their baby Willi moved  to the Javan Gibbon Centre in Bogor. Hopefully in a while they will soon be released in wild. http://www.wanicare.com/2009/07/gibbons-to-the-javan-gibbon-centre/ 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 ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/07/the-sad-story-of-bimbi-the-siamang/ Recently, at the 5th of March, I have given a presentation about PPSC in Nature Centre the Koppel, Vechtstraat 8 Hardenberg. It turned out to be a great succes: visitors were very enthusiastic and we had great support and a lot of publicity. I gave information and told about the ... http://www.wanicare.com/2009/03/presentation-about-work-ppsc/