Indonesia

IAR’s team in Indonesia rescues and rehabilitates macaque monkeys and slow lorises that have been caught from the wild and sold as pets in the notorious animal markets.

Our primate rescue centre in Ciapus, near Bogor on the island of Java has a fully equipped veterinary clinic, spacious primate socialisation enclosures, a public education centre, accommodation for volunteers and visitors and a viewing platform for observing the animals. Set apart from the other buildings are quarantine enclosures for new or sick animals.

The IAR team rescues and rehabilitates macaques which have often spent years in captivity, caged or chained up in miserable isolation. After rescue, medical check-ups and treatment and a period in quarantine, the macaques are socialised in groups where they learn to behave like monkeys again before being released back into the wild.

IAR also helps the macaques by educating people in animal welfare and raising awareness of the risk of zoonotic diseases, fighting the trade, and campaigning to win macaques some legal protection in Indonesia.

The team is also working to put an end to the trade in slow lorises. Working closely with universities and scientists the aim, whenever possible, is to return these animals to the wild. In order to do that, intensive studies must be carried out on the genetics, taxonomy and the origin of these primates.

International Animal Rescue will also provide lifelong sanctuary for those animals that have had their teeth knocked out and are no longer able to survive in the wild.

> Download our Slow Loris Rescue leaflet (208kb PDF)
> Download the Pro Wildlife Slow Loris fact sheet (805kb PDF)

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