For Immediate release                                    Date: 19 January 2012

Start limbering up!

Sport Relief is back and it’s coming to The Monkey Sanctuary in Looe, Cornwall

For Immediate release                                    Date: 18 January 2012

  Wild Future’s Campaign to Ban Primates as Pets

Gains Momentum

Staff from Wild Futures and their flagship project, The Monkey Sanctuary in Looe, Cornwall, are celebrating after beating the resident team on the popular TV general-knowledge quiz show, the Eggheads. The team from the conservation and welfare charity Wild Futures, pitted their wits against their rivals and won after 30 nail-biting minutes. 

The prize money works on a roll-over basis and the charity was delighted to be able to take home £6,000 to put towards protecting primates and habitats worldwide.

Thank you to all of you who voted for us as part of the Animal Friends Pet Insurance Facebook Competition.

We came in second place and will therefore recieve £2,000!

Join our friends on Facebook and help us win up to £5,000!

Animal Friends Insurance, have set themselves the challenge of donating £1 Million of their profits to animal charities by the end of 2012. So far they’ve been able to donate over £450,000!

Sign the petition to encourage EU & Moroccan authorities to better enforce existing laws to put an end to the trade in Barbary macaques.

The number of Barbary macaques remaining in the wild would only be able to populate a small fishing village in Cornwall. There are said to be fewer Barbary macaques left in the wild than there Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutans.

Issues:

This year, you have helped us to fund projects that protect primates in

• South America
• Asia
• Africa

The Neotropical Primate Conservation Charity (NPC) were one of the worthy projects we selected in South America.  Their work consists of

Are you passionate about animals and Interested in getting your voice heard? HeadsUp is an online forum for young people aged 11-18 which aims to give you the opportunity to debate with decision makers about issues that matter to you! Not registered with Headsup yet? Click here to get registered. The topics we will be discussing include: Animals and entertainment, pets, farming and animal welfare, endangered animals and climate change.

A big congratulations to Jack and Pippa Schofield, winners of our ‘Keeper for a Day Draw’, who won this unique experience by recommending a friend to adopt Josh the capuchin, on our annual adopters’ day!

Working closely with experienced members of the team participants gain a behind-the-scenes insight into the roles and responsibilities of our Keepers at the sanctuary and become involved in important aspects of the monkeys’ lives such as preparing monkey food, making enrichment and cleaning enclosures! We look forward to welcoming Jack & Pippa back to the sanctuary.

This year’s Adopters’ Day, hosted at our Looe based Monkey Sanctuary, got off to a great start with glorious sunshine and clear skies greeting guests as they arrived onsite.

As well as Campaign talks, monkey updates and tours to ‘meet your monkey’, adopters were able to get more ‘hands-on’ and experience an important part of a Keeper’s work; keeping the monkeys entertained and mentally stimulated by creating enrichment, which was then handed out by a Keeper to our Woolly monkeys, much to their delight.