Saving The Slow Loris
Saving The Slow Loris
Earth Touch Insiders & Phuket Web Media
We take our cameras inside two Thailand sanctuaries for rescued and injured slow lorises to meet the vets and volunteers dealing firsthand with the consequences of the illegal trade in these threatened primates. They might be some of the most adorable creatures on earth, but that cuteness has put slow lorises at serious risk from the exotic pet industry.
We started this story with some secret filming in tourist destinations around Phuket and Khao Lak, catching the touts that use the Slow Loris as photo props for unsuspecting tourists. Later we travelled to Prachuap Kirikan to meet Edwin Wiek of the WFFT. Here they receive Slow Lorises that are injured or abandoned and do their best to rehabilitate them for return to the wild. Nancy Gibson was next stop on our story and her small but wonderful Slow Loris refuge just south of Bangkok allowed us to see first hand the tragedy of the animal photo trade in Thailand.
Special thanks to Nancy Gibson from www.lovewildlife.org and Edwin Wiek from www.wfft.org for their invaluable help to secure the footage used in this episode of Earth Touch Insiders.
