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Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation for orphaned, abused and sick wild animals

by Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand

WFFT was founded in 2001 to fight against animal injustices and to provide rescue facilities and/or life-long care to animals in need.

WFFT was the first chain-free elephant sanctuary in Asia and has the first-ever wildlife hospital in Thailand, as well as a dedicated elephant hospital. Today, WFFT provides care to more than 700 rescued animals. This includes 300 primates of 22 species (including orangutans, chimpanzee, six gibbon species, two slow loris species), 25 elephants, 31 bears, 17 otters, various avian species including great hornbills, and domestic animals too. Wherever possible, our goal is to return wildlife back to the wild.

The animals at WFFT are mostly rescued from terrible situations of abuse including being used as photo props, the tourism/logging industry, languishing in horrendous zoos, from homes where they were kept on chains or tiny cages for years on end, or are orphaned as a result of human-wildlife conflict.

Many of the primates came to us after their mothers were killed and they themselves were sold as pets. Once too old and hard to handle, the ‘owner’ surrenders the animal to WFFT. We also care for numerous macaques rescued from the coconut picking industry who spent their lives chained up when they were not forced to pick coconuts for human gain. Then there are others, such as Canoe the chimpanzee, who was rescued from the playground of a school in Bangkok where he had been kept in a tiny, metal-barred cage for more than 30 years.

All of the elephants were rescued from a life of servitude in trekking or logging camps.

We receive many animals every year who are injured as a result of human encroachment on wild habitats (car accidents and electrocution being the most common) and require urgent medical care before they are released back to nature.

Those who cannot be released due to ill health, age, human dependence, are provided with large natural enclosures (our largest enclosure is 18 hectares) in the company of their own species (where appropriate).

Every dollar donated helps us feed, care and house wild animals who have suffered so much, at the hands of humans. Every donation also helps us rehabilitate more sick or injured animals to release back to the wild.

The more funds we have, the more animals we can help!

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