Author Warren Ellis on the Red panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons
JAAN’s Sumatra Wildlife Center opened in 2017 on 7,000 square metres Ellis Park’s website states that JAAN has been rescuing and protecting wildlife in Indonesia since 2008. In 2017, with help from the Bentley Foundation and a private donor, JAAN bought 7,000 square metres of land in southern Sumatra, which became the Sumatra Wildlife Center. From a February 2021 introduction to an April 2021 land gift In February 2021, Lorinda Jane of Palm Oil Investigations introduced Ellis to Femke den Haas, a co-founder of JAAN, and the three of them met over Zoom during the COVID pandemic. The Ellis Park site dates the extension to April 2021, with 5,000 square metres set aside to house wildlife that cannot be released. What a 2024 macaque study explains about animals that cannot be released Impacts of illegal trade on socio-emotional and behavioural skills in macaques was published in F1000Research in 2024 by Amapola Rey, Maria Padrell, Miquel Llorente and colleagues. The paper reports that it involved 53 macaques from five species at the Lao Conservation Trust for Wildlife, a former zoo that now operates as a sanctuary. Rina, Trinity and a resident list that has passed 100 Ellis Park lists more than 100 residents, all of them with a disability and in need of special care. Rina’s profile on the park’s website records that she was rescued in December 2018 from a wildlife trader in Bandung, West Java, who had cut off both of her arms. Trinity is a gibbon that was illegally kept as a pet for 20 years and has only one arm and one leg left. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Changes in the primate trade in Indonesian wildlife markets over 25 years: Fewer apes and langurs, more macaques, and slow lorises was published in the American Journal of Primatology . It reports that apes and langurs became less common in Indonesian wildlife markets over 25 years, while macaques and slow lorises became more common.
Ellis Park’s website records that in 2021 Warren Ellis, an Australian musician, bought land next to one of JAAN’s rescue centers and donated it so that animals that could not be released would have a permanent home. Because the area had no rescue center of its own, before JAAN opened a center in the south of Sumatra, most animals seized there were taken to rescue centers in Java and elsewhere,. Because he was biting the steel bars of his cage, brad is a crocodile that lost all his teeth.
Bon Bon, a pig-tailed macaque, was kept as a pet in Bali and reared in a house without other macaques, and Ellis Park’s profile of him says he lost skills he needs in the wild.
Ellis Park’s website says that donations go directly toward the care of the animals. Wildlife seized from traders in southern Sumatra faces a second challenge after rescue. Many animals recover and return to the forest, but others arrive with injuries or habits that make release impossible, and for years the region has had few places able to keep them. JAAN, the Indonesian wildlife nonprofit whose name stands for Jakarta Animal Aid Network, has worked on that gap, and its website calls the south of Sumatra the main hub for wildlife crime. The donation was named Ellis Park. Photographs of Rina, a macaque whose arms had both been amputated, and of a small dog with a broken jaw convinced Ellis to take action. Den Haas shared information about available land next to the center, which Ellis and his family bought and donated to JAAN. The park also aims to educate visitors about cruelty to wildlife in the tourism and pet trades. Ellis plans to buy adjoining land in future as a home for elephants and other large wildlife. Macaques who had been denied social interaction when young demonstrated less social behavior and exhibited social avoidance as adults, while macaques who were raised by humans demonstrated more aberrant social behavior. The study was conducted in Laos, but some animals at Ellis Park have similar backgrounds. She is considered a symbol of Ellis Park. Pearl is a blind macaque that was brought to the sanctuary from a government quarantine facility. There are two sun bears, Henri and Amelia, who were infants at their arrival. A southern pig-tailed macaque in Sumatra. The residents of Ellis Park are from both categories. Oscar is a slow loris who suffered severe burns after he came into contact with power lines. The park has noted that slow lorises are captured for sale as pets, with their teeth being pulled out to facilitate handling. Staff, sponsorships and macaque companions Utami is the veterinarian, Herman is the head keeper, and there are more than five other keepers in the park. The above-mentioned study suggests that macaques kept by humans with little contact with other macaques may be more prone to anxiety and abnormal behavior, which fits the park’s plan for Bon Bon to keep Rina and Elsa company. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.
