Bound, butchered for their meat, or forced to live as captive chained “pets.” This is the reality for thousands of wild animals in the Asian country of Laos – and now, you have an opportunity to help rush some to safety. Read on…

Wild animals, some just infants, are stolen from the wild and kept in cramped, filthy cages as “pets” or to be sold at markets for their meat and body parts.

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Wild animals rescued from Asia’s BRUTAL meat and pet trade are TRAUMATIZED, INJURED and DESPERATE for SAFE sanctuary.

Please, help give them life-long protection they deserve!

Our partner, the Lao Conservation Trust for Wildlife (LCTW), rescues hundreds of wild animals every year from bushmeat markets, illegal traders, and cruel people who keep them chained in squalor as pets.

Two infant monkeys cling to each other after being rescued by our partner.

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There are 250 creatures at the sanctuary. When we visited in December, we saw these animals, including critically endangered pangolins, langurs and white-cheeked gibbons, were happy and thriving, with superb care and enclosures that mimic their wild habitats. But now they have to go.

Until now, LCTW has been able to treat, care for and shelter its animals at their beautiful, spacious sanctuary…

…In a terrible blow to the animals, the sanctuary’s landowners want their land back – by JUNE!

Our partner is racing to prepare a new sanctuary while continuing their critical rescue work for other wild animals.

These screenshots, showing pangolin scales (left) and slaughtered wild animals (right), show social media being used for the illegal trade of wildlife.
Translation: “Traders traders, which customer wants to buy a variety of wild animals, can order. Contact the dealer to see the actual items. Wild animals for sale daily.”

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The sanctuary move is a massive undertaking made more so because existing rescue work never stops! This means the animals need help right now if they have any chance of a safe future.

Many rescued wild animals can never be released back into the wild because of the extent of their injuries and the severity of their trauma. They need a safe, spacious sanctuary to live in peace…

There are just four months to turn this wild area into habitable spaces for its rescued wild animals.

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The challenge is constructing species-appropriate enclosures for all 250 wild animals in their care – and THIS is where you come in.

From the smallest infant pangolins to the largest Asiatic bears and critically endangered Siamese crocodiles, every rescued animal needs a safe, appropriate enclosure.

We have just sixteen weeks to help them build these – a very narrow window in which to complete a huge, expensive amount of work for the animals.

Crittica, a critically endangered Chinese pangolin, and her baby, were rescued and rehabilitated.

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If we cannot help complete the enclosures by the deadline of JUNE, the animals will have to remain in cramped transport cages until the money CAN be raised.

This would be DEEPLY TRAUMATIZING for all of them. Please, help us raise the money to provide them a new haven.

Baby binturongs – also known as bearcats – are vulnerable carnivores who are poached for Chinese “medicines”, for their fur, and for the pet trade. These two infants were rescued by our partner.

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Each enclosure costs from $10,000 to $20,000 (around £8,155 to £16,300). They are costly but WORTH IT for animals who have lived chained, beaten, and caged for years – if not their whole lives. We CANNOT let them go back into cages!

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The very least they deserve is a safe home, with spacious enclosures, grass and trees to enjoy, and sun on their backs. Will you help give them that?