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12th report – February/March 2016 – Memorandum of understanding
with BBKSDA North Sumatra and first confiscated slow lorises
February and March can be considered very successful and active months. We signed an Memorandum of
Understanding with the governmental agency BBKSDA North Sumatra that includes several points about
our cooperation on progress in improvement of the current situation of the illegal trade in slow lorises in
Sumatra. We also confiscated and accepted the first slow lorises, we gained a grant on educational
activities from The Rufford Foundation, and many more. Here is a summary of the most important events
of the last two months, also with many photographs.
Cooperation with local governmental agency on enforcement of laws for slow loris
protection
On March 8th, our non-profit organization Indonesian Species Conservation Program (ISCP) on behalf of
the executive director Rudianto Sembiring officially signed an agreement on cooperation on enforcement
of laws for slow loris protection with the local governmental agency BBKSDA North Sumatra (The
Natural Resources Conservation Agency). This agreement includes an authorization for The Kukang
Rescue Program to:
rescue, rehabilitate and release Greater slow lorises
monitor released and wild Greater slow lorises
cooperate with Indonesian authorities on better enforcement of laws against the illegal trade in
Greater slow lorises
organize awareness-raising and educational events
build an Indonesian team that will deal with most of the conservation activities related to slow
lorises
Signing of the agreement on cooperation with BBKSDA North Sumatra
Confiscation and the first slow lorises in our centre
Immediately after the completion of all necessary documents, our centre received the first slow lorises.
Currently, there are four individuals in the centre. Two of them got to the centre thanks to the educational
activities after they had been kept in a small bird cage in front of a farmers´ house for several years. We
received one of the lorises from BBKSDA North Sumatra (The Natural Resources Conservation Agency)
after its former owner gave it voluntarily to the agency. The last slow loris was confiscated directly by
The Kukang Rescue Program team together with BBKSDA North Sumatra, concretely with their SPORC
unit (Forest Police Rapid Response Unit), and with a non-profit organization The Scorpion Foundation in
the Balige city near the Toba lake, a popular tourist destination. The confiscated mother with her young
had been kept in front of a café of their former owner who had been offering them for sale. The lorises
had been fed very unsuitable diet consisting for example of fried bananas, sweet palm milk (used to make
palm wine), so called “tuak nira“, and sweet tea. Both confiscated slow lorises were in bad condition, and
especially the young, named Bulan (“moon“ in Indonesian language) by its former owners, was already in
critical state. Despite maximum efforts of our rescue team, this baby died soon after its confiscation.
Autopsy showed that the young had been in really critical physical condition, had hepatitis and ulcers in
the intestine. Long-term stress, conditions in which they were kept, and a very poor diet were evaluated as
the causes of this condition.
It is not unusual that people buying slow lorises do not have any idea about their natural diet and
physiology. In such conditions, animals taken from the wild sooner or later die. Young animals are even
more vulnerable to these conditions than adults, and in most cases they die after their trapping.
All four slow lorises have been moved to the quarantine where their rehabilitation process begins. In an
ideal case, this rehabilitation process will end with their release back into the wild.
Gerhana´s home for last two years
The Kukang Rescue team, SPORC members and The Scorpion
Foundation during confiscation of slow lorises in the Balige city Confiscation of the baby „Bulan“
Mother and her apathetic young before confiscation
Janička´s dental examination
Rescue and rehabilitation centre in Sumatra
Because our awareness-raising activities have considerably expanded, The Kukang Rescue Program has
had a new coordinator of awareness-raising activities since February and her name is Novithasari Bangun.
Main purpose of her work is organization of lectures at local schools, awareness-raising events at public
places, also coordination of the anti-conflict team and other activities. Novi is communicative, enjoys
working with people, understands the mentality of people living in our targeted locations and has
participated for several years in ISCP in children education with focus on nature conservation.
Novi, the coordinator of awareness-raising events
Majda in the quarantine
Raising awareness about the illegal trade in animals and protection of slow lorises
We have managed to receive again a grant from The Rufford Foundation from England. The grant was
written for the purpose of educational activities which are much needed in Sumatra. The grant title is:
Conservation action plan to raise awareness about the illegal trade in Nycticebus spp. in the North
Sumatra province. Purpose of our educational activities for this year are mainly lectures at schools near
the rescue and rehabilitation centre, awareness-raising events at public places, work with farmers living
on the border with forests, and construction of the first part of the educational part of our rescue centre.
Included is also training of Indonesian employees and seminar at BBKSDA North Sumatra in Medan,
which will aim to strengthen relationships and set up further plan on enforcement of laws for slow loris
protection.
With regard to the support received by The Rufford Foundation, we immediately started developing our
plans. Novi organized several more expeditions of the anti-conflict team. In February and March, we
visited a few localities where farmers live and work directly on the border of a protected area. Farms of
these people are often visited by wild animals destroying their farm crops. The goal of the anti-conflict
team is to prevent conflicts between farmers, slow lorises and other wild animals. In last two months, our
team visited the Berastagi area, specifically Tongkoh area, known as an agricultural locality. The team
further focused on a village of Kuta Male bordering the protected area of the Gunung Leuser ecosystem,
and visited also an area neighbouring with protected Cagar Alam forest near the rescue and rehabilitation
centre. In all the cases, we gained support of local mayors. In Rajah Berneh, we and its mayor even
placed an informative sign about the illegality of hunting protected animal species. This sign also points
to possible sanctions for violation of this law and is located in a strategic place where endangered species
such as slow lorises, pangolins, hornbills and more are often hunted. The same sign has been also placed
at the entrance to our rescue and rehabilitation centre.
Discussion with farmers in Rajah Berneh about
their problems with wild animals Terka explaining to the children of farmers what
a slow loris is
Kaban and Odi filling out questionnaires with
a farmer in Kuta Male
English class for children in Kuta Male
In February, a group called ABUN (Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature) started to support The Kukang
Rescue Program by its artwork, with focus on the "I Am Not Your Toy!" campaign.
ABUN is a group of artists from the whole world under the leadership of Kitty Harvill and her husband
Christoph Hrdina. This group draws pictures using various techniques in order to support projects focused
on protection of endangered species and their natural environment. These pictures are created according
to photos provided by the projects. Their amazing artwork will be perfect educational tool of the
"I Am Not Your Toy!" campaign and of other materials that we are about to gradually create and publish.
Placement of informative sign near the famous
Sibayak volcano
Novi, Markéta and Jitka with a farmer in Kuta Male
who has just joined „slow loris defenders“
Original photograph taken by Lucie Čižmářová and a drawing made by ABUN group
member Marion Schön
The Kukang Rescue Program has also gained support of the new campaign called “Neotáčej se zády“.
This campaign is led by Alena Skálová with help of server www.mameradizvirata.com. The goal is to
support Czech-Indonesian projects focused on conservation of nature in Indonesia. The Kukang Rescue
Program has been supported in form of raising awareness and sale of promotional items on the topic of
destruction of tropical rainforests. Part of the gained financial resources will be donated to the
conservation of slow lorises in Sumatra.
Publicity
In recent two months, our project appeared also in several articles on the internet or at the traveling
exhibition of the Ostrava Zoo at chosen Czech train stations.
Journals like Moravskoslezský, Bruntálský and Krnovský, Karvinský and Havířovský, Novojičínský,
Opavský and Hlučínský, and Frýdecko-Místecký and Třinecký together with the Ostrava Zoo have issued
an article about protection of slow lorises and the "I Am Not Your Toy!" campaign. You can find the
whole article for example here:
http://moravskoslezsky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/ostravska-zoo-bojuje-proti-nelegalnimu-obchodu-s-
outloni-20160301.html
From April to July, you have the opportunity to see a traveling exhibition at four chosen train stations in
the Moravian-Silesian Region informing about conservation projects in which the Ostrava Zoo has
participated. The Kukang Rescue Program is not missing there. You can find more information here:
http://www.cd.cz/zazitky/kam-na-vylet/1475-jak-ostravska-zoo-pomaha-chranit-zvirata
Thanks to the travellers from the well-known group “Trabantem napříč kontinenty“ (“In trabant across
the continents“) led by Dan Přibáň, you could read about the problems of slow lorises and about our
rescue program on the ekolist.cz or autoperiskop.cz servers. The filmmakers have cooperated with the
Coalition against palm oil and called for the support of the Greater slow loris protection. Complete
articles can be found here:
http://ekolist.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/cestovatele-v-trabantech-podporili-zachranu-outlonu-roztomile-
primaty-ohrozuje-vysadba-palem-olejnych
http://autoperiskop.cz/do-ceskych-kin-vstupuje-film-dana-pribane-trabantem-do-posledniho-dechu-o-
doposud-nejnarocnejsi-pulrocni-expedici-tohoto-cestovatele/
Shortly after the confiscation of the slow lorises in the Balige city, our rescue and rehabilitation centre
was visited by successful Indonesian photographer Albert Ivan Santoso Damanik. During a veterinary
examination of the confiscated female, he took a series of photographs. Theguardian.com and Italian
server quotidiano.net have already published short articles based on those photos. Complete articles can
be found here:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/apr/01/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures
http://www.quotidiano.net/animali/foto/animali-loris-1.2015295
In conclusion
Finally, we would like to thank Eva Vozabulová, her helpers, restaurant Pod Vobrazem in Kladno, and
Šroub and Jarda, Nemístné návrhy a Pyré bands for „Beneficial concert for slow lorises“, that took place
on February 6th in the Pod Vobrazem restaurant in Kladno. Our thanks belong also to Denisa Mikešová
and the city of Český Dub for „Rainforest film festival“ that took place on Saturday March 12th in the
cinema in Český Dub. Thank you belongs also to NWT Energy company, Jana Kanichová, and all others,
who have been and still are financially supporting us. We also thank everyone who has done a great work
for slow loris protection in last months!
Posters of the beneficial concert and Rainforest film festival
Wozina with band at the Beneficial concert for slow lorises
František Příbrský
The Kukang Rescue Program coordinator
Field worker of Ostrava Zoo
www.kukang.org
Volunteers at the Beneficial concert for slow lorises
Opening of the Rainforest film festival
Kukang account balance
Account balance as of 31/1/2016 1,048.10 USD
Income 31/1/2016 - 31/3/2016
1,224.62 USD Ostrava Zoo – February, March
835.18 USD Olomouc Zoo – February, March
12.49 USD Dalibor Válek – February, March
208.21 USD Jana Kanichová
20.82 USD JAMIKA s.r.o. – February, March
83.28 USD Vilém Helešic - December
83.28 USD Promotional items - Eva Šlosarčíková, Lucie
Pavlačíková and Kristýna Korecová
1,137.75 USD NWT Energy
175.11 USD Rainforest Film Festival - Denisa Mikešová
12.49 USD Jiří Laufer
16.66 USD Lucie Kořítková
41.64 USD Markéta Jariabková
6,771.41 USD The Rufford Foundation
Total income 10,622.88 USD
Costs 31/1/2016 - 31/3/2016 3,016.66 USD Operational cost of the rescue and
rehabilitation centre (salaries, repairs,
equipment of the clinic and office, 17.5 kg of
an arabic gum, and other costs of the program)
- February, March
1,147.45 USD Travel costs - 2x Kuala Lumpur-Praha, 2x
Medan-Kuala Lumpur (paid by contributions of
the Ostrava Zoo and Olomouc Zoo)
160.77 USD Cost of the Memorandum of Understanding
with BBKSDA North Sumatra
200.96 USD Cost of the confiscation of the slow lorises in
Balige
386.82 USD Construction of the warehouse and purchase of
the tools
263.48 USD Awareness-raising campaign
387.65 USD Working and promotional T-shirts - Indonesia
166.57 USD Purchase of the materials for e-shop - Czech
Republic
Total costs 5,730.36 USD
Account balance as of
31/3/2016 5,940.62 USD