WORLD WORLDWIDE ANIMALS - ANIMAL SURVIVIAL INTERNATIONAL - News Journal Update - Hundreds of critically endangered wild animals to lose their home!

 

View this email in your browser Wild animals rescued from Asia’s brutal meat and pet trade need a safe place to live - FAST Please help by making a donation now! Share Tweet Forward Dear friends,  A vitally important wildlife sanctuary in Laos has been evicted from the land where it shelters, rehabilitates and cares for around 250 rescued wild animals.  Stella, a slow loris, was shot by poachers attempting to capture her for the Asian bushmeat trade. Credit: ASI/Mark Jordan Every single one of the animals has been rescued from traumatic and brutal situations, including poachers, bushmeat markets where they would have been sold for their meat, or life as captive pets.  Animals like Stella, a slow loris - a small primate often described as resembling a child’s teddy bear, and weighing less than 2,5 pounds (1,1 kg). This little animal was shot 11 times by poachers.  Then there is Joy, an Asiatic moon bear rescued from Asia’s vile bear bile trade. This ghastly industry sees bears kept in appalling conditions so bile can be extracted from their gallbladders using long needles, and used in “Traditional Chinese Medicines” (TCM). These wild animals and hundreds more risk losing their only safe home - and THIS is the heartbreaking reason why. Please help by making a donation now! Pangolins rescued from Asia's illegal wildlife trade. Credit: Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife Our partner, Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife (LCTW), has its sanctuary on a piece of land that the owners want back.  As usual, the animals are helpless victims. LCTW has found new land but has just four months to build enclosures and move the animals there. The most frightening thing of all is that if we cannot meet the deadline and remove all the animals and structures from the old land, the landowners could use the existing LCTW sanctuary as a ZOO! Critically endangered pangolins, white-cheeked gibbons and threatened bears are among 250 wild animals being evicted from their protected sanctuary.  We have a plan to help, but we need YOU to make it possible. Please help by making a donation now! Credit: ASI/Mark Jordan Many of the rescued animals will be treated and rehabilitated and then released into safe, protected areas where they will not be at risk of being poached or harmed.  But many, like Stella, a slow loris, can never return to the wild.  This is because poachers cut or rip out the canine teeth of the slow loris to prevent their venomous bite, and it means they will never be able to fend for themselves in the wild. Many animals at LCTW have sustained long-term injuries or trauma or have been left orphaned or disabled, and now, their futures are in grave danger. “Cute and cuddly” in appearance, slow lorises are prized by poachers for the illegal pet trade. Here, the LCTW vet team works to remove bullets riddling little Stella’s body. Credit: ASI/Debby Querido The wild animals at LCTW have survived horror, abuse and exploitation.  We have a plan to help give them lifelong protection, but we need YOUR support.  Please, help. The deadline to move looms just FOUR MONTHS away - but this timeframe could be reduced at any moment, on the whim of the landowners. We must move FAST! Please help by making a donation now! Credit: Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife The GOOD news: LCTW has new land situated along a protected reserve patrolled by rangers, making it ideal for safely releasing rehabilitated wild animals.  The BAD news: LCTW is desperately short of funds to prepare the new sanctuary. If it cannot be completed in time, the repercussions for the animals will be dire. The animals will have to remain in cramped cages until the funds can be raised for their enclosures. They must NOT go back to captivity! Please help by making a donation now! LCTW has found new land and has been given a 45-year lease, but this is just one piece of the puzzle.  Rescued binturongs at the LCTW sanctuary. Credit: Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife The animals need appropriate-sized, species-specific enclosures for all 250 animals, and they are fighting a very tight deadline… …They need your help! Please help by making a donation now! Today, you have the power to give these wild animals the security they deserve. Each enclosure costs between $10,000 and $20,000 (around £8,155 to £16,300), and we need to help pay for 17 of them. Rescued white-cheeked gibbons in the care of LCTW. Credit: Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife Your donation right now will directly support critically endangered rescued animals, including pangolins, elongated tortoises, white-cheeked gibbons and Siamese crocodiles, as well as threatened species like moon and sun bears, and impressed tortoises.  All these creatures are under severe threat due to the demand for animal products like bear bile and pangolin scales for fake, unproved traditional Chinese medicine and for the pet and bushmeat trades. Threatened and endangered wild animals are ruthlessly slaughtered for Asia's blood-thirsty wildlife trade. Credit: Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife These animals have already been rescued once, but if we cannot raise sufficient funds now, they could face another horrific ordeal. Please help by making a donation now! Please do not let that happen!  Any amount you donate today will be a lifeline for 250 rescued wild animals being evicted from their home. Be their beacon of hope in a dismal world. They are counting on you today - so please donate as much as you possibly can right away. Saving animals and the planet, General Manager Animal Survival International P.S. Your donation will help animals like Babs, a “pet” macaque who had a chain so tightly embedded in her neck, she required surgery to remove it. And Uncle Sam, a pangolin found wandering after escaping a restaurant. There are 250 animals with similar stories who need your help. Please help by making a donation now! Subscribe to our newsletter! Credit: Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife