Donate to save dancing monkeys
Donate nowCan you help end this cruel practice and save monkeys now?
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Your donation could help feed rescued monkeys and restore them to full health.
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Your donation could help teach rescued monkeys essential skills as they transition from a life of suffering to one of freedom.
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Your donation could help provide expert veterinary care for rescued macaques.
Donate nowLong-tailed macaques are the most traded and exploited primates in Indonesia. Naturally highly intelligent and sociable, this species of monkey is now endangered because of loss of habitat, and exploitation for medical science or street entertainment.
In the wild, a baby macaque would stay with its mother for at least two years. But these monkeys are taken from the wild as infants, their mothers shot - and from just 8 months old, these bewildered young monkeys are subjected to the cruellest training regime imaginable.
Starved, hanged, beaten and chained by the neck, they are forced to wear masks, dress up as dolls and stand on two legs for painful amounts of time as they are trained to do dance steps, ride bicycles and perform tricks for shoppers and tourists on the streets.
It’s horrible, isn’t it? And it has a terrible impact on these very young, intelligent animals, who’ve been proven to suffer extreme stress
Working with our local partner Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN), we have just successfully rescued 31 young macaques from a cruel ‘dance training village’. Since 2014 over 400 monkeys have been rescued, rehabilitated, and returned to the wild.
Will you start a monthly gift to help these innocent monkeys?
Will you start a monthly gift to help these innocent monkeys?
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When you start a monthly donation, you’ll join a passionate group of supporters who are determined to change the world for animals. World Animal Protection is working hard to stop the cruel exploitation of animals in the wild, animals in farming, wildlife trade and animals used in Asian medicine.
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Image credits: Hero image and column 2 image: World Animal Protection / Aaron Gekoski | Column 1 image: Amy Jones / Moving Animals | Column 3 image: iStock by Getty Images