there that your foundation relied so much on tourists and their volunteer efforts, it must ve been a pretty year? yeah. right now, we have closed completely. the guests that come and visit us and stay at our eco resort could not come any more so our income went from being sustainable to basically zero. we are running from month to month. we currently have funds that will take us up to the end of february. of course, if an animal comes through the door, we have to be here and there are still 700 lives we need to feed and take your everyday. wow. do we have an update on some of the animals that i caught up with? how are maggie and chico? they have both moved into a huge open topped enclosure. when you were here last time, you were in the forest with them. we were taking them out of an enclosure they were in at night time every day for walks into the forest. they now have a huge forested area. bunma and pearl were the two infant baby macaques.
hi guys. this is our baby long tailed macaque. bunma and pearl. 0ne male and one female. hi bunma, hi pearl. so have i got bunma? this one bunma. bunma, why does he want that one? don t try and steal pearl s. the owner bought her from a black market. this means her mother was killed by a poacher. it s nice they have got each other now. yeah. they know they have each other and it s a good thing for them. look at these sweet little baby macaques, pearland bunma. i love how they re so affectionate with each other. it s too young to be separated from their mother. removing a young animal from its parents impacts their behaviour for life.
being carted around by a guy and people might pay 100 or 200 baht to get that one second selfie, but sadly it is a lifetime for that animal. there s a few more here, this is a liger. what s he riding on? it s a liger, which is a cross between a tiger and a lion. the liger is the biggest wildcat you can have and this guy is riding it. a lot of these animals are just beaten into submission. this animal here, you can t see unless i zoom, but he is on a very, very short chain. this is a family, we don t know if the animal has diseases or vice versa. these guys could have a common cold and it s very easy for that to be transmitted between the great apes. infant animals are particularly vulnerable to the photo prop trade. here in the wildlife hospital, babies that have been rescued or abandoned are cared for in the nursery. in the wild, these animals would hold onto their mothers throughout infancy so they instinctively cling onto each other to try and recreate the warmth and security they w
it is certainly wet. i should have brought a spare pair of socks! and you do wonder who is really in charge here. a little bit spooky. people are actually being attacked by the monkeys! landing on their heads and stuff. the climb is steep and not helped by the fact that some of the steps are covered in monkey droppings. 0h! but the view going up is incredible golden pagodas peeking through the swirling mist. ok, i ve climbed the 777 steps to the top of mount popa, this ancient spiritual shrine. and because of that mist, it s eerily beautiful. that was rajan in myanmar.