A gibbon in your toilet?
A gibbon spend almost a week in toilet after biting its owner A young female gibbon was given to Mr. John, an expat living in a beach city in Thailand…
Canoe, the Bangkok chimp, getting help form authorities
Finally a chance for change! On February 18th Edwin Wiek, founder of WFFT, was able to hand over 25,000 signatures of a petition on CHANGE.ORG to the director-general of the…
WFFT goes to the rescue in Laos!
NOTIFICATION January 21st, 2015 The Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) is proud to announce that from today we are actively involved with the “Laos wildlife rescue center” as a part…
Bobbie goes home!
Finally back to his family and the green trees! A young long-tailed macaque we like to call "Bobbie" was rescued several weeks ago after he and his mother were hit…
NGOs Denounce the European Union for Promoting Killing of Whales
NGOs Denounce the European Union for Promoting the Killing of Whales and Undermine the Global Moratorium on Commercial Whaling On behalf of WFFT and WFI, Geert Drieman director of WFI,…
Elephant rescue: Welcome to Daorueng!
When the paths of two individuals of two different species cross.... Imagine this: You are an elephant working in the tourism industry for over 30 years, you have…
Boon Chuey settling in at WFFT
After years of hard labor now retired Remember "Boon Chuey", the elephant that was rescued 10 days ago from the elephant camp in Pattaya? (see photo) Well, Boon Chuey is…
To the rescue of Kaew Petch the elephant!
Another elephant retires from work forever! Kaew Petch is a 50 years old elephant who has worked in the tourism trade since the 1980's. She was found by us in…
WFFT court of appeal verdict
We had to wait 2 years for justice, after being accused of many horrible crimes such as illegal wildlife possession, wildlife trade, illegal encroachment, theft and animal torture. Finally the…
WFFT NOT GUILTY OF ILLEGAL WILDLIFE POSSESSION!
Finally JUSTICE after 2 years of fighting! The 27th of February 2014 is an important day for wildlife conservation and animal welfare in Thailand! Today the court of appeals ruled…
Another injured and treated monkey goes home!
Another happy return home "Jim" is a female long-tailed macaque that got hit by a car near Khao Wang mountain in Petchburi city. "Jim" was in a very bad physical…
Opening Ceremony WFFT Elephant Wild Enclosure
Elephants getting their own forest! Our Elephant Wild Enclosure has been officially opened; 5 hectares of forest for our rescued elephants to freely roam in. The main donors from Australia;…
Storm damage at the rescue center
WFFT hit by tropical storm WFFT was hit hard by a tropical storm last week. Luckily we didn't have any casualties with either human's nor our animals, but many of…
March for elephants Bangkok!
STOP THE IVORY TRADE NOW! On Friday the 4th of October 2013 the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) co-organized the “March for Elephants” in Bangkok with the Elephant Nature Park…
FINALLY a bit of justice!
Wildlife Friends Foundation found NOT GUILTY of running an illegal wildlife hospital Today 27th of August 2013 the prosecutor and provincial court have ruled that the WFFT Foundation was…
Enrichments and fun for Kan Kloey!
Kan kloey, a young boy becoming a little man Lately our volunteers have been making more enrichments for the elephants, and especially for the young bull "Kan Kloey" who has…
Illegal wildlife traders in Thailand “busted” is “business as usual”
Illegal wildlife traders in Thailand get “busted” and go on with “business as usual” June 2013 By Edwin Wiek / WFFT founder On Monday the 10th of June 2013 police…
June’s departure…
June decision to follow her buddy Bua Ngun A week after the sad news of Bua Ngun passing away we have again bad news, as we already expected last week.…
Bua Ngun passes away
At almost 70 year of age Bua leaves our world Bua Ngun arrived at WFFT in November 2009 in a poor condition. After WFFT received a complaint about an old…
Russian couple arrested with photo monkeys
Phuket Monkeys confiscated The WFFT rescue team rescued a pig-tailed monkey 3 weeks ago and was informed by the person that handed over the monkey that she had bought it…
