AESOP
PROJECT - AESOP-Project [Allied
Effort to Save Other Primates]
is an international coalition
of individuals and organizations
dedicated to protecting monkeys
and apes. www.aesop-project.org
AdoptionSpot.com
:
www.AdoptionSpot.com
A Valuable Adoption Directory
and Information Resource.
Earth
Crash Earth Spirit - Miss
Waldron's red colobus monkeys
which were hunted for meat and
their habitat fragmented and destroyed
by farming and logging. (they
are now extinct).
Emory
University (USA) http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINK/
Study of the Advanced study of
Ape and Human Evolution (focus
on chimps and capucin research)
Helping Hands, a national 501 (c) 3 organization, breeds, raises, and trains capuchin monkeys to assist individuals who have mobility impairments with their daily activities. We provide these affectionate, responsive service animals and their lifetime support free of charge. For more information please go to www.monkeyhelpers.org.
African
Conservation Foundation (ACF)
- is a UK-registered not for profit
educational foundation supporting
all conservation initiatives in
Africa through capacity-building
in terms of ICT and GIS/Remote
Sensing.
CSIR
bookshop - will help you find
books that are not readily available
DAKTARI http://www.africanorphanage.com/
Daktari was created by Michèle
and Ian Merrifield, who started
it as a non profit organization
in 2002. The idea is to give all
kinds of people, including those
with disabilities, the opportunity
to experience, as a team, the
care of orphaned animals.
Endangered
Primate Rescue Center -
Langurs, gibbons, lorises)
The EPRC cares for rare primates
confiscated from the booming illegal
animal trade. With these confiscated
individuals the EPRC has successfully
formed several breeding groups
and it strives to establish stable
captive breeding populations of
some of the rarest primate taxa
and the longterm goal is the release
of captive bred offspring back
to the wild. www.primatecenter.org/
People
for Animals (PFA) - organisation
which maintains animal hospitals,
ambulances and refuges all over
India for domestic animals. The
wildlife wing of PFA, Save Our
Wildlife (SoWL), runs a 24 hour
service for rescue and rehabilitation
of urban wildlife. www.peopleforanimals.org/
Wildlife rescue center established
by the Council of Agriculture
in 1993. Housing, rehabilitation,
relocation, conservation breeding
for confiscated animals and abandoned
wildlife pets. Mainly primates
originally from Taiwan (Formosan
macaques) and other Asian countries
(including orangutans, gibbons,
other macaques; pygmy lorises);
other wild animals such as tigers,
sun bears and small carnivores).
Cooperation with the Monkey World
and Ape Rescue Center in Dorset,
UK for conservation of Asian primates.
SPECIES
NET - www.species.net
Species Information Network: a
website by Quantum Conservation
with information and links on
animal care, husbandry, breeding,
wildlife management and biodiversity
conservation.
The
Wild Animal Rescue Foundation
of Thailand (WAR) - www.warthai.org
The Wild Animal Rescue Foundation
of Thailand (WAR) is a non-profit-making
charitable foundation dedicated
to the welfare and preservation
of natural species of animals
in Thailand. War was started in
1985 by Pongsagdi and Leonie Vejjajiva
with the encouragement of Pisit
Na Pattalung, secretary of the
Wildlife Fund Thailand.
Wildlife
assistance projects in Cambodia
"WAPIC"
David Ware, Projects Coordinator,
PO Box 1106, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: 855-12-883-274
E-mail: volunteers@pobox.com
Government rescue centre run by
the Wildlife Protection Office
(belonging to the Department of
Forestry and Wildlife of the Ministry
Of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries).
Groups that have helped with the
development of the center include
Free the Bears, Care for the Wild,
WildAid and David Ware
Wildlife
Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT)
-wildlife rescue center
Wildlife Friends of Thailand -
www.wfft.org/
Wildlife Rescue and Gibbon Rehabilitation
center located at Kao Look Chang
Temple in the Petchburi province,
Thailand, approximately 200 kilometers
south of Bangkok.
Wildlife
Rescue and Rehab Center (WRRC)
- www.cupabangalore.org/about/wrrc.htm
Primate section: for bonnet macaques
and slender lorises, up to 30-50
animals.
The WRRC, a rescue center for
wild animals (reptiles, birds
and primates) on seven acres of
land provided by the forest dept
of Karnataka, was established
in 2000 - 2001. It is the wildlife
wing of the CUPA organisation
Contact: Suparna Baksi Ganguly
