The sad new trend in Phuket’s tourist areas –slow lorises as photo-props
By Petra Osterberg There is clearly a lucrative market for wildlife as photo–prop animals in Phuket’s crowded tourist areas. For decades hundreds of thousands…
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Accolades to Indian enforcement and rescue teams: pygmy lorises in India doing well!
You may have seen the comments left on our site from Mr Rohit Upadhyaya, terminal manager of IGI Airport, New Delhi, where two pygmy…
Read MoreLatest international smuggling of pygmy slow loris
From IndiaTVNews – amended where appropriate. New Delhi, Sep 10 : Two rare Slow Loris ‘monkeys ‘were seized by alert CISF guards at Delhi’s Indira…
Read MoreLoris Fact 6: You can’t chew with somebody else’s teeth
Well that’s a Yiddish proverb, but the loris would agree, and most lorises really love their teeth. Being strepsirrhine primates, lorises have really neat…
Read MoreLoris Fact 5: Communication and Collaboration to Save Lorises!
This post is a not so much a fact but a story from the field from our research fellow Sisil Putri.The FACT is that…
Read MoreLoris fact 4: CITES…a little lesson
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is a multilateral treaty that entered into force on 1 July 1975. Its aim is…
Read MoreLoris Fact 2: Babies the weight of paperclips? Slow loris!
Fireface Slow Loris Awareness Week Fact 2 is about slow loris reproduction! No one can resist the fluffball that is a loris infant, except…
Read MoreReducing Stress in Captive Lorises
One of my MSc Primate Conservation students Andy Gray at Oxford Brookes describes her research project helping care for slow lorises without teeth! Andy…
Read MoreLaw Enforcement Training Works
Old news is good news! This press release from our colleagues at Emerging Conservation Leaders shows how training can lead to enforcement! Pattaya,…
Read MoreSlow Loris Petition to Remove Illegal YouTube Videos
Shortly the Little Fireface Project will begin in earnest our campaign to (at the very least) understand WHY YouTube will not remove videos of…
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