Wani Care Foundation

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!

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 that we will use to temporarily castrate our leaf monkeys. This is because we don’t want them to reproduce in our center, but this way they can still reproduce in nature (where we hope they will go some day).
I want to thank them very much for their donations!

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 will be used for new projects in Cikananga.
I want to thank everyone who gave a donation.

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.