Rayu the slow loris’ life was saved by a resident of Sukabumi city in Java and by the prompt action of our veterinary team.
The woman spotted a little bundle of fur huddled at the roadside, only feet away from the passing traffic. She could see the loris had a deep, maggot-infested wound on her right arm and called our centre urgently for help.
News just in, our primate rehabilitation centre in Ciapus has just taken in 34 Critically Endangered slow lorises confiscated by the police from traffickers in Bandung, West Java.
Pasar is a Javan slow loris of only six to eight weeks old. And yet this baby has already suffered terrible cruelty during his short life.
Marti was still tiny when she was snatched from the forest. She was torn from her mother and stuffed into a crate full of other frightened babies. They were all slow lorises – shy, endangered primates living in the forests of South East Asia.