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Buy a Twister Buy a travel mug Only Beaker £2.99 each and get your first cold drink FREE Charity No. 1126939 + 20%off refills! Only Redeemable at any café or £7.99 each kiosk in the park. and get your first A PE R ESCUE C HRONICLE Recently, the law has changed regarding Issue: 69 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 hot drink FREE data protection regulation (GDPR) which 20%off refills! aims to improve the way companies + handle customer’s personal data. To see how this affects Monkey World adoptive Redeemable at parents, and the way we use and store customer data, please see our data protection compliance statement any café or kiosk online at www.monkeyworld.org/files/monkeyworldgdpr.pdf. If you have any other questions or concerns about data protection, in the park. please contact us at [email protected] ACCOMMODATION NEAR MONKEY WORLD With a portfolio of over 300 personally selected properties, over 100 of which are pet friendly, Dream Cottages are Dorset’s leading holiday cottage agency. 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Longthorns Farm, Longthorns, Wareham, Dorset BH20 6HH Middlemarsh nr Sherborne DT9 5QN 9 Breachfield Rd, Wool, nr Wareham BH20 6DQ Tel: 01929 401539 www.longthornsfarm.co.uk www.whitehorsefarm.co.uk www.breachfieldbedandbreakfast.co.uk 20 s WELCOME BENNY & NIA By Alison Cronin FROM BEIRUT & Emily Wren Nia Wednesday, May 16th, was an exciting time here at Monkey World as we welcomed two new arrivals and a After a Long Journey, the Guenons Were new species to the park. World as victims of the international illegal Finally Able to Stretch Their Limbs. wildlife trade. Having received a clean bill of health, Middle Eastern Airlines offered to fly the confiscated guenons to UK. It was a long journey but the pair settled into their new house well. Nia, who is clearly dominant, Mica Watches the New Arrivals Sceptically. came out of her travel crate with great George Has a New Lease of Life. confidence and curiosity. She is an We initially allowed everyone to just see inquisitive individual and already we can each other through the indoor mesh, but see she has stacks of personality, along once we were happy it was calm, the space of his new enclosure and is often with a cheeky streak! Benny is a much doors were opened. Introductions with seen pottering around and foraging before more reserved individual, who is cautious the foursome have gone extremely well. he heads off for a quick nap. and nervous of people. He will clearly need Nia is fascinated by her new companions, a lot of patience and reassurance to help in particular George, who she likes to go We are really pleased to be able to offer him adjust to his new life. After following and poke every so often! Mica is very Benny and Nia a new home, but more Nia’s lead, he too cautiously came out of Nia Takes Her First Tentative Steps protective over George and keeps a close importantly we were pleased to assist his travel box and started to explore his Outside. eye on what the cheeky guenons are doing the Lebanese authorities to enforce the new digs. Although we are not certain of but is realising that they are no threat to Convention on the International Trade in their ages, they appear young and we him and she can ward them off with just a Endangered Species (CITES) in order to estimate that they are approximately 2 simple look. Benny is still very quiet, but he stop the smuggling of primates from the years old. At 1.5 and 1.8kg they are half loves his new outside enclosure where he wild. Benny & Nia may not know it but they the body weight of mature red-bellied can once again sit in the trees and enjoy are very rare individuals and the only pair guenons and in need of building their eating the fresh browse. George too has of red-bellied guenons legally in human Benny & Nia Were Transported to UK by MEA in a Safe & Heated Part of the Cargo Hold. muscle strength back up. had a new lease of life with the increased care, in the world, currently. Benny and Nia are white-throated, red- cared for until we could arrange for Monkey After a few days to settle in, and for us bellied guenons, who had been hunted from World’s veterinarian, John Lewis, to go get to know each other, it was time for the wild in Benin before being smuggled to to Beirut to give the two monkeys health their next adventure - meeting their new Accra in Ghana. From Accra airport the checks. British Airways kindly sponsored roommates! Our resident OAP ring-tailed monkeys were put on a passenger flight to these health checks by flying John to lemur George and Mica our patas monkey Beirut but were seized on landing at Beirut Beirut. And of course, there was lengthy were on their way over to move in. The airport by the authorities. With the help of paperwork to be organised before Benny & move for this pair went smoothly as both Animals Lebanon, Benny and Nia were Nia could legally be transported to Monkey went into their transport boxes quite easily. Finally Able to Relax, Benny Rests in the Sun. ©Animals Lebanon 2017 Nia (front) & Benny Were Terrified in the Ali, Customs Official, with Alison and Maggie Nia Loves the Trees in her New Nia & Benny Were Kept in Temporary Filthy Box When They Were Confiscated & Jason from Animals Lebanon, Stayed with Benny & Nia Until They Were Loaded on Home at Monkey World. Accommodation in Beruit. at Beruit airport. Board the MEA Flight to Heathrow. 2 3 ENDANGERED ASIAN SPECIES TRUST By Alison Cronin www.go-east.org Email: [email protected] DAO TIEN UPDATE Signing the next 5-year Memorandum of Understanding between East, Cat Tien National Park, Monkey World & Pintung Rescue Centre Female Gibbon, Ku-lai, Was “Donated” to Dao Tien. EAST and the Dao Tien Endangered Primate Species Centre will Marina Kenyon, Nguyễn Văn Diện, Alison Cronin & Kurtis Pei Signing the Memorandum continue to rehabilitate confiscated primates and put them back out with the Dao Tien & Cat Tien National Park Teams. into continuous forest through the year 2022. Sadly, new arrivals to the centre don’t stop coming from across Vietnam. Recently Ku-lai, On January 6th I returned to our sister rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing our rehabilitated primates and know who we think is a white-cheeked or siki gibbon, arrived at Dao Tien. sanctuary, Dao Tien to meet with Marina three species of endangered primate for that they are doing OK adapting to life DNA sequencing will confirm what species she is and if we are correct Kenyon, Director of Dao Tien, Nguyễn the past 10 years! To date more than 50 at height back in the forest. The work is arrangements will be made to move her to a more appropriate home in Văn Diện, Director of Cat Tien National pygmy loris, 8 golden-cheeked gibbons, labour intensive and time consuming but Northern Vietnam. In addition to all our pygmy loris, we have also just Park, and Kurtis Pei, Director of Pingtung and 4 black-shanked doucs from the our team of 10 at Dao Tien including Mr received two more Bengal slow loris, male Khoa and female An Thu, Rescue Centre in order to discuss and black-market trade have been rehabilitated Ngoan, Mr K’Hoai, Mr Dong, Ms Phoung, which are less common in the illegal trade in Southern Vietnam. sign our next 5-year Memorandum of and returned to the wild with radio collars. Mr Hai, Ms Trang, Mr Nghia, Mr Son, & Mr Understanding. It is hard to believe but The follow up monitoring is vital so we Binh, are incredibly dedicated and make it Bengal Slow Loris, Khoa, Was Brought to Dao EAST has been working on Dao Tien can learn more about the behaviour of all possible. Photo: Gibbons, Hoi and Vang Get a Head for Heights in our “Nursery” Semi-free Enclosure. Tien Following His Confiscation. It is with great sadness that there is a name missing from the team… EAST needed 20 radio collars at Dao Tien, to track pygmy loris that were ready for release. Mr Thanh, our Deputy Head G THE Keeper, unexpectedly passed IN W away following a short period of L I illness. Thanh had a wonderful L L D way with the gibbons and was A often the one sent to catch C R animals up for vet checks or a is d r placing radio collars as he was io o L very calm and steady with the Tr y Thank You ack gm animals. Thanh was also a great ing Py John! Mr. Thanh Taking a Gibbon to the Hospital for a Radio help with all our construction John Pullen climbed to Everest Base Collar Prior to Release.