Times remain very difficult. Thanks to great efforts from our supporters from Masarang Hong Kong we were able to continue to feed and care for the 395 precious confiscated animals at the Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue and Education Centre. Our friends and partners at Orangutanhilfe Luxembourg have also been contributing to this effort. The attached picture report by Billy Lolowang, shows the activities of the last two weeks at Tasikoki where everyone had to chip in to grow food, feed the animals and clean the cages etc. In the absence of volunteers these tasks were also filled in by the kitchen staff, visitor and education staff as well as security personnel. This was all part of the aim to still provide the highest possible standard of care for the animals under the difficult pandemic circumstances.
There has also been some other important news for Tasikoki. Firstly, the Ministry of Forestry has now allowed releases of wildlife again and Masarang Foundation has worked hard to prepare two locations for releases of groups of Sulawesi Macaques. They will still be monitored for several months, which places an additional financial responsibility on the organisation, but the ultimate aim of Tasikoki is to rescue, rehabilitate and release. Secondly, in July the Ministry of Forestry will also bring another 99 confiscated animals, mostly parrots, from the Philippines to North Sulawesi to be placed in the Tasikoki facilities. Although we are very pleased that these rescued animals are being returned to Indonesia and may ultimately be released to the wild, this represents another challenge in terms of workload and especially operational costs. We hope that we will be able to raise enough support to get the centre through these difficult times and hope you will continue to support our efforts to help us, help them.
Thank you very much
Masarang Hong Kong team.
Valenry, collecting browse from different part of plants such as leaves, buds, and flower for the primates every morning
Morning browse for Hanuman the long tailed macaque, he picked the flower first.
Picky monkey with their morning browse, but leaves are part of their diet in the wild.
Windi, put the enrichment made from Pineapple crown for the black caped lories.
Baredeyed Cockatoos, enjoying their enrichment. This enrichment makes them busy in the afternoon.
Meywan, the primate keeper, ready to distribute the daily food for primates centre
Handry, cleaning the birds enclosure by collecting the old food and sweep the poop and left over food from the floor
Noldy and Handry , collecting bamboo to put in the primates socialization enclosure as platform to move
An injured macaques got attacked by the other macaques in the group. The vet team had sutured 10cm open wound on his arm.
Isman, the alpha male in the bachelor group. He had a role to protect the group and maintain the hierarchy in the
We distribute the food from the top enclosure to stimulate this kind of behaviour, the monkey acrobatic skill when they fora gin g for food.
Juvenile and lower rank monkey are foraging the food that fallen on the ground
New renovated hatchery in Tulap. From January to June 2020, we had rescued 75 sea turtle nests with total 8253 eggs. About 51% of this eggs already hatch.
The Masarang Sea turtles ranger team in Tulap
Pineapples cluster that are plant by the HK International schools in Tulap . Now we had harvest this pineapples to help reduce the food cost for the animals in Tasikoki
Some of the pineapples we collected from Tulap for the animals food in Tasikoki
Recently rescued protected animals, confiscated by the BKSDA (Conservation & Natural Resources Dept.); 2 Black caped lorry ( Lorius lory ), White cockatoos Cacatua alba ), and Nankeen night heron Nycticorax caledonicus
Annisa (vet), open the basket where the smuggler kept 2 Black caped lorry
One of the Black caped lorry just rescued. This photo taken inside the birds quarantine.
The basket used to kept two Black caped lorry just rescued, one of the are being tied to this unopened Fanta
Annisa (vet) and Nius (birds keeper), doing health check for the new rescued birds
Fahmi (vet) and Handry (keeper), change the bandage for Tayo ” the Heck’s macaques that are rescued in January. He injury himself while in quarantine
Nankeen night heron ( Nycticorax caledonicus ) are protected species in Indonesia. This one is newly rescued, we still stabilize this bird from it’s stress. Soon we will rel eased it in Tasikoki mangrove.
Windi (edu officer) collecting the Jungle salad (young leaves, flower buds, young shoot) for the primate’s breakfast
Marlene and Vicki the two Javan Langur in Tasikoki , enjoying their breakfast that just harvested from Tasikoki’s forest
Demi, the Moor Macaques (Macaca maura ) enjoying her breakfast
Valenry (liason officer) making enrichment from watermelon for the bears
Tante Siska , from kitchen and house keeping department, are helping also the keeper team to preparing the food for the animals
Tante Roos , the coordinator of Kitchen and house keeping department, helping the garden and security team to kept Tasikoki neat even there is no guest
Brando, birds keeper, distribute the food in the big aviary
The left over food and ‘poop’ from the bird aviary, are collected and dump in the composting pit to be use as fertilizer
Robbi (behavior & ecology staff) and Solikhin consulting and update the plan for release macaques in Mt. Ambang to the head of the Bongkudai district (East Bolaangmongondow
The recent condition of the soft release cages in Mt. Ambang . Now, we got the permission to continue the release process that are being postponed because of Covid 19
Annisa (vet) and Nius doing regular check and body condition for the cockatoos
Fahmi (vet), Annisa (vet), and Nius ; doing regular health check for the cockatoos. They check for the flight feather, weight, and give deworming
Annisa (vet) and Noldy , change the bandage of the injury Heck’s macaques
dr. Annisa handing out the enrichment for the primates
James, primate keeper, feeding the macaques from the top of socialization enclosure
Noldy , keeper coordinator, washing the cucumber before serving it to the animals
Rian, primate keeper, cutting the fruits and vegetables for the primates
Jeruk, the critically endangered Citron crested cockatoo ( Cacatua sulphurea citrinocristata ), looks happy with the keeper cleaning his enclosure
Crocodile feeding time, every 2 weeks we feeding our large size crocodiles with alive chicken
Robbi, observing the social interaction of the Macaca nigra that will be released back to the wild
Riri the Heck’s macaques ( Macaca hecki ) and her new born baby, Rhasin
Two curious Yaki Macaca nigra ) with their breakfast
Robi, the bear cuscus Ailurops ursinus ) roaming around in his newly greenerized enclosure (environmental enrichment).
Daily feeding for the deer, every day our keeper goes out to collect the browse, so the deer get additional fresh leaves
Not only the deer who got browse, the primates also got it as additional to the fruits they got as their food.
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