Friends of Monkey World

From Bournemouth Echo:

IT was a dream he did not live to see come true, but the founder of Monkey World would have been justly proud of the centre’s latest achievement.

The wife of the late Jim Cronin, Dr Alison Cronin, has this week returned from Vietnam where, after six years of work, a 64-hectare rehabilitation centre for golden-cheeked gibbons rescued from the sickening smuggling trade has been opened.

Alison said: “All those years ago Jim turned to me when we saw the first illegal shipment of gibbons in Thailand and said We should do something about this’.”

Working with the Vietnamese authorities, a project began to establish a primate rescue centre in the south of the country, at Cat Tien National Park.

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Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre is celebrating the successful completion and opening of the Dao Tien Endangered Primate Species Centre. Known for assisting governments around the world to stop the smuggling of primates from the wild, this is Monkey World’s first insitu conservation project.

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From the Great Ape Trust:

A group of orangutans who appeared in Hollywood films, television commercials and magazine advertisements is being relocated to Great Ape Trust of Iowa – a significant move that begins to close the curtain in the United States on the decades-long use of orangutans in the entertainment industry. Great Ape Trust, a scientific research facility in Des Moines, Iowa dedicated to the study of primate intelligence and behavior, will triple its orangutan population from three to nine.

The first of the new residents, 3-year-old Rocky and his 19-year-old mother Katy, arrived safely at Great Ape Trust on Saturday, July 12, from the Los Angeles area, where they had been privately owned by Steve Martin’s Working Wildlife, co-owned by Steve and Donna Martin. Their company specializes in providing trained animals for entertainment and advertising.

In discussions with Dr. Robert Shumaker, director of the orangutan research program at Great Ape Trust, the Martins decided to donate these orangutans to The Trust and discontinue their use of orangutans in entertainment.

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From VietNamNet Bridge:

The Nam Cat Tien National Park in southern Dong Nai province on July 12 put into operation a wildlife rescue centre, specializing in primate.

The centre, covering 30 ha of land inside original forests on the Tien (Fairy) island, has been entrusted to step in when illegally-caged primates or primate trafficking are found.

It will also conduct research on rare primates’ habitat to farm rescued animals in the natural environment before freeing them into the forests.

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From Telegraph:

The Indian girl has become virtually inseparable from an Indian Langur named Ramu which her parents adopted when an attack by stray dogs left him orphaned.

Parents Anil and Rashmi Mehta now see Ramu as the perfect addition to their family.

“Ramu has made all the difference to our family, I feel as if he is part of my life like Diksha,” says Mrs Mehta from their home in Bharauch town in the north-western Gujarat state.

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