Thailand To Send 48 Orangutans Back To Indonesia

[Jai Dee]

Thailand to send 48 orangutans back to Indonesia

The National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation Department will send 48 orangutans back to Indonesia after completion of their DNA tests next week.

Department deputy chief Chawan Thanhikorn (ชวาล ทัฬหิกรณ์) said Indonesia will have to build 48 cages and arrange for an air transport of those orangutans to its country.

Mr. Chawan said the return of the orangutans to Indonesia is the first under ASEAN cooperation on prevention of illegal trade of flora and fauna. He said health certificates will be issued for the animals but if they are found to have any disease Indonesia can not send them back to Thailand again.

Mr. Chawan said Indonesia will put the orangutans in a shelter on Borneo Island.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 05 September 2006

[sriracha john]

Thailand to send 48 orangutans back to Indonesia

The National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation Department will send 48 orangutans back to Indonesia after completion of their DNA tests next week.

Department deputy chief Chawan Thanhikorn (ชวาล ทัฬหิกรณ์) said Indonesia will have to build 48 cages and arrange for an air transport of those orangutans to its country.

Mr. Chawan said the return of the orangutans to Indonesia is the first under ASEAN cooperation on prevention of illegal trade of flora and fauna. He said health certificates will be issued for the animals but if they are found to have any disease Indonesia can not send them back to Thailand again.

Mr. Chawan said Indonesia will put the orangutans in a shelter on Borneo Island.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 05 September 2006

Hoping for a safe return for all these primates.

The original thread providing the background information on who/what/when/where/why/how on all these orangutans is available here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...;p=873125

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btw,

Back, Jai Dee

[Jai Dee]

btw,

Back, Jai Dee

Thanks SJ... only a week off, but a good break.

[Papa_Lazarou]

Thailand to send 48 orangutans back to Indonesia

1) Chawan Thanhikorn (ชวาล ทัฬหิกรณ์) said Indonesia will have to build 48 cages and arrange for an air transport of those orangutans to its country.

2) Mr. Chawan said said health certificates will be issued for the animals but if they are found to have any disease Indonesia can not send them back to Thailand again.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 05 September 2006

This Thai official sounds very bumptious and ungracious.

[isaanbrit]

Thailand to send 48 orangutans back to Indonesia

The National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation Department will send 48 orangutans back to Indonesia after completion of their DNA tests next week.

Department deputy chief Chawan Thanhikorn (ชวาล ทัฬหิกรณ์) said Indonesia will have to build 48 cages and arrange for an air transport of those orangutans to its country.

Mr. Chawan said the return of the orangutans to Indonesia is the first under ASEAN cooperation on prevention of illegal trade of flora and fauna. He said health certificates will be issued for the animals but if they are found to have any disease Indonesia can not send them back to Thailand again.

Mr. Chawan said Indonesia will put the orangutans in a shelter on Borneo Island.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 05 September 2006

Hoping for a safe return for all these primates.

The original thread providing the background information on who/what/when/where/why/how on all these orangutans is available here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...;p=873125

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btw,

Back, Jai Dee

Is it really neccessary to quote everything????

[kmart]

Mr. Chawan said Indonesia will put the orangutans in a shelter on Borneo Island.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 05 September 2006

Will it have a boxing ring, and available bags of peanuts for gawping onlookers to throw at them? Mai sanuk.

[Scott]

It's good that they're going back. They seem to be getting stricter about animals all the time. Look at the controversy about elephants going overseas.

[kurgen]

If I were a gambling man I wouldn't bet on more than 10 actually being sent back

[sonnyJ]

Thinking..... So what are the plans to rehabiliate these poor fellows? Where are they exactly send to? Hope we will hear of them after a couple of years again.

[ratcatcher]

Perhaps they could let the orangutans have seats in the senate and send some of the monkeys in the senate over to Indonesia instead. Could be cost effective, after all they do b*gger all don't they? Besides they look more intelligent. I read that Chiang Mai Night Safarci has "borrowed (kamooeyed)

some of these creatures for public display in that demi Eden.

[Jai Dee]

Update:

Return of 48 orangutans to Indonesia postponed indefinitely

The National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation Department has postponed indefinitely the return of 48 orangutans to Indonesia.

Department deputy chief Chawal Thanhikorn (ชวาล ทัฬหิกรณ์) said 48 of 53 orangutans, seized from Safari World in Bangkok, were scheduled to be flown back to Indonesia on September 23. The transport, however, has to be postponed because Indonesia’s C-130 military aircraft set to pick up the animals was not allowed to land at a Thai airport now given the present situation in Thailand, Mr. Chawal said. Commercial aircraft may have to be used in this case instead, he said.

Mr. Chawal said Indonesia also asked not to take back seven sick orangutans. He said Thailand would help take care of them if Indonesia agreed to pay all expenses.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 28 September 2006

[Rinrada]

Supprised they dont expect the poor Bloody things to do a Visa Run....

Send them home...first Class and show that you are sincere

[Spenthouse]

Return of 48 orangutans to Indonesia postponed indefinitely

b'cos they could only trace 47 - one is hiding in london!

[h90]

Perhaps they could let the orangutans have seats in the senate and send some of the monkeys in the senate over to Indonesia instead. Could be cost effective, after all they do b*gger all don't they? Besides they look more intelligent. I read that Chiang Mai Night Safarci has "borrowed (kamooeyed)

some of these creatures for public display in that demi Eden.

one was already sent to London.

[Jai Dee]

Update: Orangutans return home to Indonesia

48 orangutans confiscated from the Safari World Zoo have been sent back to their original habitat this morning.

The Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP) Secretary-General Chalermsak Wanichsombat (เฉลิมศักดิ์ วานิชสมบัติ) said that the 48 orangutans had been seized from the Safari World Zoo and sent to Khao Pratap Chang Wildlife Breeding Center in Ratchaburi (ราชบุรี) Province.

Today, at 5.00 hours, C-130 Indonesian airplane has landed at the Don Mueng airport of the Royal Thai Air Force to take the 48 orangutans to their home. The airplane will arrive at Jakarta in Indonesia at 12.00 hours today. Then, the 48 orangutans will be sent to Indonisia’s Kalimuntan Island where it will become their permanent habitat. As for another 5 orangutans at Chiang Mai Night Safari Zoo, they will be sent back soon.

Mr. Chalermsak informed that some Thai officers have taken the same trip with the Orangutans to ensure that they will not be smuggled into Thailand again.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 22 November 2006

[Jai Dee]

Smuggled Indonesian orangutans return home

JAKARTA (AFP) - Forty-eight orangutans that were smuggled into Thailand returned home to Indonesia Wednesday, two years after they were discovered in a Bangkok zoo.

The apes were received by Indonesia's First Lady, Ani Yudhoyono, in a brief ceremony at a Jakarta airforce base.

The orangutans were supposed to leave for Indonesia in September, but their departure was delayed by the military coup in Thailand when operations at the air base in Bangkok were suspended.

They have been held in a conservation area about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Bangkok, where they have lived in large pens.

"Indonesia is happy for the return of the lost children," Ani Yudhoyono said.

The orangutans were later flown by an Indonesian air force plane to the Nyaru Menteng orangutan rehabilitation center near Central Kalimantan's capital of Palangkaraya.

Willie Smits, of conservation charity the Gibbon Foundation, said: "Orangutans, some of them as young as nine months old, are still being illegally sold at pet markets in Jakarta for five million rupiah (550 dollars).

"It (the repatriation of the apes) should be a beginning of a total eradication of illegal animal trade in Indonesia."

Citrakasih Nente, a member with the veterinary team travelling with the apes, said it had isolated seven of the orangutans that are infected with Hepatitis B.

"In the rehabilitation centre, they will be living in man-made islands, so they will not be in contact with the other orangutans," she said.

"It is better for them to be living out in the open rather than stay all their lives in cages," Nente added.

Orangutans, the only great ape to be found outside of Africa, are native to the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.

About 62,000 orangutans are estimated to live in Indonesia, 7,500 of them in Sumatra, Forestry Minister Malam Sambat Kaban said.

But experts said populations are fast declining due to deforestation and illegal animal trafficking.

Smits said least 1,000 orangutans are estimated to have been killed by fires and land clearing in Indonesia this year.

Source: AFP - 23 November 2006

[kmart]

Thats a shame. I was going to buy one. I had a rope / tyre swing put up in the back garden and everything,..... I was also going to make a sequel to the "Every Which Way..." series of films with Clint Eastwood as well, by having my urangutan out-smart gangs of dopey bikers in Pattaya at every opportunity.

###### shame...