We’ve recently been exploring the conservation theme over a considerable amount of time, and we are narrowing down the species we’ll focus on. It seems appropriate to expand to cover a genus of animals that are really struggling at the moment, the slow loris!
We have these in Krabi province, in Southern Thailand and we never get tired of seeing them, bright eyes glowing in the trees. In addition to snakes and some other reptiles and amphibians (frogs), we’ll make a commitment to helping the slow loris recover from exploitation for the pet industry.
We often see bananas hanging from trees on strings – put there by poachers, and designed to poison the slow loris and harvest them for selling into the pet trade.
If you would like to see these amazing animals in the wild, before they are gone for good – plan a trip to Krabi and we’ll set you up with a local guide who can show you slow lorises in the wild, in the rainforest – where they belong!
Watch the Slow Loris Movie we put together below:
Hi,
Today I went to visit the floating market in Kanchanaburi. At the entrance of the market I saw 2 people that have a python and a slow loris as a pet so tourist people can take pictures with it. The animals didn’t look healthy and very stressed. The snake has one blind eye I think. Is this legal in Thailand? I read an article about people having slow loris to make money out of it getting arrested. That’s why I want to report it. I hope there is something you can do. I also have a picture of the slow loris for proof.
Best regards
Hi, thanks for your note. You can report these sorts of things here – https://www.wfft.org/.
Cheers!