‘THE DODO’ HELPING SPREAD AWARENESS

The dancing monkeys of Indonesia & our work to help them have been featured by The Dodo, an infamous blog that features animals & their stories from all around the globe.

Thank you The Dodo for bringing attention to the cruel industry & for helping us spread awareness! You can read their whole article (high recommended) by clicking here. If you would like to help by joining our ‘Sponsor A Monkey’ program, click here.

PYTHON MEAT FOR SALE

We received news that Transmart Indonesia were selling snake meat, particularly python! We took to our social media accounts to express our disgust & asked all to boycott the food chain as the python is a protected species & cannot be allowed to be butchered! (original post below).

We received an amazing outcome! Many JAAN supporters & followers were in up roar & you all equally expressed your anger & shock. We raised enough hype that in response to the controversy Transmart Manado manager Hendra Simbolon told Tribunnews that he would be pulling all python meat products from his store. He said it was unfortunate because python was commonly sold in Manado and wasn’t sure why Transmart was targetted since other supermarkets in the city sold it as well. He said he would wait for upper management’s decision regarding exactly when to end snake meat sales. Read www.coconuts.co for full article & details!

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This is HUGE! Thank you to all that helped in achieving this, together we have a voice that cannot be ignored! Now it doesn’t end there, we want to see more than just this. We want to see python meat pulled completely & forever & we also want to see more action regarding the dolphin traveling circuses! Carrefour Transmart Indonesia still DIRECTLY supports the dolphin circus by allowing them to use their parking lots to hold the shows.

They need to STOP directly supporting animal cruelty! All their contacts are below.

Wesbite http://www.carrefour.co.id
Instagram@carrefour_id
Contact Numbers – http://www.carrefour.co.id/id/shop/contact/

PULO FIRMAN THE TOPENG MONYET

The story of Pulo Firman is yet another sad story of a dancing monkey used to make money. Pulo Firman is an adult male, around 5 years old. He travelled all the way from Carbon to Lombok with him ‘handlers’ who then took him to the Gili Trawangan Islands.

Although we are now concentrating on both Jakarta and Bandung area’s to rescue dancing monkeys. Firman was lucky as his handlers were caught by the Police over there and then handed to JAAN. This all happened due to good team work and co ordination with our friends from the Gili Eco Trust along with Police Officer Ketut Artana. We gave Ketut a Certificate Of Appreciation for the fast action to confiscate Firman and highly encourage any other officials to help us rescue these poor monkeys too.

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In the photos below you can see Pulo Firman’s ‘costume’ and chain removed. The chain was extremely tight and heavy around his small neck. He is now adapting very well to his quarantine enclosure and new surroundings, leaving his dancing monkey past behind. More updates on his progress with follow so be sure to follow all our social media accounts, here.

You can also help either Pulo Firman or others just like him greatly, by joining our ‘Sponsor A Monkey’ program. To read more information, click here.