Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020 12:33 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Betsy and Lola ― the two of the gibbons taken by Perhilitan yesterday. ― Picture via Facebook/Gibbon Conservation Society
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 The Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) yesterday seized and removed four gibbons by force from a gibbon rehabilitation centre in Pahang operated by its former wildlife ranger, even as a court dispute over the gibbons remains pending, reports have said.
Even as Gibbon Rehabilitation Project’s (GReP) founder Mariani Ramli continues to pursue the court case at the Federal Court, Perhilitan had confiscated the gibbons by acting on a Court of Appeal decision in the government department’s favour.
Perhilitan calls off second raid at gibbon rehab centre
Modified30 Dec 2020, 11:32 pm
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UPDATED 8PM | Added comments from Perhilitan enforcement director Pazil Abdul Patah.
UPDATED 6PM | Rewritten after Perhilitan stopped their raid and the centre lodged a police report against the department.
After a 10-hour raid yesterday, the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) returned to the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project (Grep) centre this morning for a second raid.
However, they stopped their operation after the centre’s staff demanded that the department produce a warrant.
The centre has since lodged a police report against Perhilitan.
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Richard C Paddock, The New York Times
Published: 22 Dec 2020 01:33 PM BdST
Updated: 22 Dec 2020 01:33 PM BdST A white-handed gibbon swings on a rope on at Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna in this Jan 10, 2012. REUTERS/FILE
The white-handed gibbon, captured as an infant by poachers, was rescued from a grim life amusing inebriated visitors in tourist bars, then spent eight years in a cage at a rehabilitation centre. );
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Now, this survivor of abuse and trauma lives in the jungle on Thailand’s Phuket island, where she was recently seen perched on a tree branch 50 feet above ground as her wild-born mate and their two offspring watched warily from nearby trees.