Help the monkeys as they embark on their next steps by donating to cover the costs of their move.
Alongside their regular food and medications while they await their move, your vital support will fund the monkey’s essential pre-departure vet checks and facilitate their transfer.
Help the monkeys as they embark on their next steps by donating to cover the costs of their move.
Alongside their regular food and medications while they await their move, your vital support will fund the monkey’s essential pre-departure vet checks and facilitate their transfer.
On 7th August 2026, Wild Futures announced their decision to close The Monkey Sanctuary. In the wake of this sad news, we have been flooded with messages of understanding, compassion and love. On behalf of all of the people and primates here at Wild Futures, thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for your well wishes, condolences, fond memories and kind words.
The welfare of the primates remains our highest priority. While our staff continue to provide outstanding levels of everyday care for the resident monkeys, they are also working tirelessly behind-the-scenes to secure the primates’ futures. However, we still need your help to make this a reality.
Every step in this complicated process – from initial discussions, to rigourous medical examinations and testing, and ultimately, to the transport of the monkeys to their new accommodations – is both necessary and costly. It is in the face of these upcoming and overwhelming costs that we ask now for your help to raise the funds needed to rehome the monkeys who currently live at The Monkey Sanctuary.
Conversations have been continuing with carefully selected sanctuaries and organisations, all of whom share our ethos and can offer a home to one of our resident species. With every meeting, whether in-person or virtual, our dedicated team are investing considerable time into collaborating with other primate specialists, co-ordinating the logistical demand of such a large scale move and advocating for each primate and their unique personality.
In light of these ongoing but promising conversations, Wild Futures is commencing with the vital second phase: primate health checks. Physical examinations, ultrasounds, x-rays, a comprehensive blood analysis, viral and bacterial testing, and medication are required in preparation for their next steps. Each of these essential appointments is expected to cost upward of £1,600, with the anaesthetic alone totalling £254.00. These estimates do not include any additional testing such as the 3 sets of sitewide faecal tests charged at £762.00 per round. Crucially, every test result, x-ray and scan received helps ensure the best standards of care for the monkeys before, during, and after their move.
Following the successful completion of these rigourous health checks, our staff will begin the difficult operation of transferring the primates to their new homes. The exact timeline is to be determined both by the monkeys and their best interests, and by their current and future carers. During this transitional period, and as is common and best practice, members of our staff will accompany and remain alongside the monkeys as they adjust.
