Wani Care Foundation

Saturday 11-12 we moved our orang utans Noni and Dodo to their new cage.

As you could read in the last update on our website, PPSC received funding from Orangutan Outreach to prepare a new cage for Noni and Dodo. Last month we all worked very hard to finish the renovation as soon as possible, so we could move Noni and Dodo to their new cage.

Last Saturday it was the big day for Noni and Dodo (and for us)!

It was so great to see their reaction on their new area. Both where so happy with all the space they had and new enrichment. Also the pool they have in this cage is a big success; Noni who is normally not very interested in water is now playing inside the pool and has so much fun with the water. It’s amazing to see the fun they have and how happy they are now. I am so happy we could do this for Noni and Dodo. When Noni and Dodo came in to PPSC we gave them a cage that was a big improvement for them at that time; at the owner’s house they had a small concrete cage with no enrichment at all. But after 2 years in PPSC they absolutely grew out of this cage. That we where now able to give them these two big cages is amazing and feels so good. Until we can translocate them to a permanent home, this is a very good solution for them.

In this way I want to thank Orangutan Outreach for their help.

Nonong at the owner

In the story of the release of our two pythons (21-11-2010) you could read about the pig tail macaque (Macaca nemestrina) that we found sitting in a small cage next to the road.

That day the owner was not at home, we where only able to talk with some neighbors/family who told us the owner would not give it to us because they loved the macaque. After this we went to the local police who we ask to help us to convince the owner to hand over the macaque to PPSC so the macaque could have a good future again. Happily they where willing to help us and they tried a few times to talk with the owner, but without success! So we decided to go back. Last Monday 6-12-2010, whey went there together with the local police and with our vet (Sabrina) who told the owner how dangers it can be for them to keep a macaque as a pet because of all kind diseases they can have like TBC, Rabies, Hepatitis who are also dangers for human. After this the owner was finely willing to handing over Nonong to us.

Nonong in the transportbox

On the moment Nonong is sitting in the quarantine here in PPSC, se is doing very well and looks happy in her new cage where we give her a lot of toys to play with and enrichment. We did already an general body check, her body condition is good, se was a little dehydrated when se came in but also this is good again. We give here de-worming, collected blood to test her on diseases and we did a TBC test on her. When we have the results from the laboratory back and these are negative Nonong will be move to the macaque cages where Boss, Joko and princess also sitting. Hopefully soon we can translocate them to IAR in Bogor.

Nonong in the quarantine cage in PPSC

On Thursday 4^th and Friday 5^th of November Wanicare and PPSC went to the expedition HCPSN (Hari Cinta Puspa dan Satwa Nasional) what can be translated in “day of love for National Flora and Fauna”  in the parking area of West Java governance headquarter called Gedung Sate in Bandung.

The aim of the exhibition was to give information and awareness to people about the protection of wild animals, why not keeping them as pets and not to hunt animals in the forest.

The Expedition was officially opened by the vice governor of West Java Dede Yusuf. Who was in the past a famous actor in Indonesia and played in many famous movies in the years of 1980-1990. In 2008 he was elected as Governor of West Java.

We had our own stand on this expedition where we gave information about our work by talking to the visitors and giving our information flyer. In this stand we also sold our t-shirts, stickers and pins.

There was live traditional music played by conservatorium students of Bandung.

On 22-10-2010 PPSC received two python’s from Agus (supplier of PPSC who sells ant eggs to us). A friend of Agus catched the two pythons’s a week earlier out of the wild! The idea of this man was to sell them! Agus contact us about it and arrange with his friend to handing them over to PPSC. 

The two python’s are a male and a female who we give the names Agus and Augustine. Augustine the female was wounded in her neck, this because the man who cought them did this with a rope! We gave her immediately medical care after se arrived in PPSC. Happily the wounds heal quickly and after being a month in PPSC we could release them back to the place where they came from; Sagaranten, about 30 km from Cikananga. In Sagaranten there is a big forest where many small wild animals are living. Of course first we had a hard word with the Agus about what his friend did. He will make sure now that this will not happen again.

Yesterday 21-11-2010 in the early morning we drove with our car and the two python’s to Sagaranten where we walked far into the forest. We found a good place for them near a river where we released them again. It was so great to see them back in the forest again where they belong.

On the way back we suddenly saw a female pig tail macaque sitting in a small cage full in the sun! We stopped to see how the animal was doing and it was in bad shape, the skin was red and little swollen probably from the sun, se had almost no hair anymore on her arms and legs. There was no water inside the cage and there was no shelter for her to hide for the sun and rain! We gave it water, she was so thirsty! And we put a plate that we found on the cage so se could hide from the sun.
We wanted to talk with the owner to ask here to hand over to us but they were not at home. We talked with some people who live next to the owner and who where also family. They told us that they didn’t want to hand her over to us because they loved the animal! The problem with macaques is that they are not protected, so it is not illegal to have them as a pet! The only way we can rescue these animals is by trying to convince the owner to give it to us so that we can give the animal a good life again and hopefully this life will be back in the free nature. For now we couldn’t do anything, but we talked already with the local police and they will try to help us. So this week we will go back together with the police, hopefully this will make more impression and is the owner willing to give the macaque to us.

To be continued…

As everyone could have read in the updates of our website about Noni and Dodo, we where still so far not able to move them to a permanent place or to a rehabilitation center. Happily we have good news for Noni and Dodo! We still can not translocate them, but we have received funding from Orang-utan Outreach to prepare a new cage for them. They defiantly grow out of their cage in which they are sitting in now. Of course we also never thought they would be in PPSC for such a long time! With the funding that we got from Orang-utan Outreach we started now with the preparing of two big carnivore cages that are not in use right now. We hope that we will be finished with the preparations of this cage very soon so that we can move them there. We hope to move Noni and Dodo to Yogyakarta where they are starting a new orang-utan center at the moment.

To be continued…