Guest guest Posted December 26, 2004 Report Share Posted December 26, 2004 This is very distressing news - for so many people in such a wide area ... Latest google news I read had 9,300 people dead and only-god-knows how many more missing or injured ... Not to mention the animals and environmental disaster ... Our prayers and thoughts are with everyone ... hoping to hear better news soon. Jane - " Shirley McGreal " <smcgreal <primfocus Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:15 AM primfocus: Phuket gibbon sanctuary >I have read with horror about the tidal wave that has killed close to 5,000 >people in Asia. Among the places hit was Phuket. Does anyone have any new >of the gibbon sanctuary there? Shirley McGreal > > > > Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman, International Primate Protection League > POB 766 Summerville SC 29484 USA > Phone: 843-871-2280 Fax: 843-871-7988 > E-mail: smcgreal > Visit IPPL's award-winning web site: <http://www.ippl.org> > > Money is not the only thing one has to spend; the other thing is a life. > The difference is that you never know how much is in the bank, or what > your balance is. Your life is your inheritance. As soon as you realize > this, you start trying to spend your life wisely..Herb Payson " Advice to > the Sealorn " > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 27, 2004 Report Share Posted December 27, 2004 The gibbon sanctuary on Phuket is untouched by the Tsunami, as it lays a lot higher above sea-level and is situated on the other side of the Phuket Island. Things are as usual at the center. A rescue team of the WFFT (Wildlife Friends of Thailand) is on Phuket at the moment, but unfortunately only dead animals have been found. It seems that the long tail macaques on the coast of Thailand have gone up the hills in most cases, however other mammals living in the little that is left over of the mangrove forests such as fishing cats and some deer have been seen washed upon the shores by local people besides a large amount of cattle and pigs. The impact on the already troubled population of sea-turtles that lay eggs on the beaches at this time will probably be devastating. Edwin Wiek - Wildlife Friends of Thailand www.wfft.org Thailand Representative - Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation www.savetheorangutans.info _____ Jane T. R. Dewar [jdewar] Monday, December 27, 2004 01:29 Shirley McGreal; Asian Animal Protection; alloprimate ; P_R_I_M_A_T_E_S ; primfocus; Primate-Net Re: primfocus: Phuket gibbon sanctuary This is very distressing news - for so many people in such a wide area ... Latest google news I read had 9,300 people dead and only-god-knows how many more missing or injured ... Not to mention the animals and environmental disaster ... Our prayers and thoughts are with everyone ... hoping to hear better news soon. Jane - " Shirley McGreal " <smcgreal <primfocus Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:15 AM primfocus: Phuket gibbon sanctuary >I have read with horror about the tidal wave that has killed close to 5,000 >people in Asia. Among the places hit was Phuket. Does anyone have any new >of the gibbon sanctuary there? Shirley McGreal > > > > Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman, International Primate Protection League > POB 766 Summerville SC 29484 USA > Phone: 843-871-2280 Fax: 843-871-7988 > E-mail: smcgreal > Visit IPPL's award-winning web site: <http://www.ippl.org> > > Money is not the only thing one has to spend; the other thing is a life. > The difference is that you never know how much is in the bank, or what > your balance is. Your life is your inheritance. As soon as you realize > this, you start trying to spend your life wisely..Herb Payson " Advice to > the Sealorn " > > > For more information on Asian animal issues, please use the search feature on the AAPN website: http://www.aapn.org/ or search the list archives at: aapn Please feel free to send any relevant news or comments to the list at aapn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 27, 2004 Report Share Posted December 27, 2004 Winston Churchill said: " We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give " . During this time of crisis, I was touched to hear a caller to Radio Mirchi - 98.3 FM - recount at 10.05 this morning that when he and his friends were helping rescue people yesterday morning at the beach in Madras, a dog which had just given birth that morning to six puppies grabbed one of them in her mouth and watched helplessly while the other five were washed away. It then proceeded to swim to higer ground with the sixth puppy. The photograph in The Hindu of a fireman with a bedraggled kitten in his hand and the help given by the police to our ambulances yesterday to rescue animals reminded all of us that at times of crises, the best in people comes out. S. Chinny Krishna Chairman Blue Cross of India Chennai - " Jane T. R. Dewar " <jdewar " Shirley McGreal " <smcgreal; " Asian Animal Protection " <aapn >; <alloprimate >; <P_R_I_M_A_T_E_S >; " primfocus " <primfocus; " Primate-Net " <primate-net > Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:58 PM Re: primfocus: Phuket gibbon sanctuary > > This is very distressing news - for so many people in such a wide area ... > Latest google news I read had 9,300 people dead and only-god-knows how many > more missing or injured ... > > Not to mention the animals and environmental disaster ... > > Our prayers and thoughts are with everyone ... hoping to hear better news > soon. > > Jane > > - > " Shirley McGreal " <smcgreal > <primfocus > Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:15 AM > primfocus: Phuket gibbon sanctuary > > > >I have read with horror about the tidal wave that has killed close to 5,000 > >people in Asia. Among the places hit was Phuket. Does anyone have any new > >of the gibbon sanctuary there? Shirley McGreal > > > > > > > > Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman, International Primate Protection League > > POB 766 Summerville SC 29484 USA > > Phone: 843-871-2280 Fax: 843-871-7988 > > E-mail: smcgreal > > Visit IPPL's award-winning web site: <http://www.ippl.org> > > > > Money is not the only thing one has to spend; the other thing is a life. > > The difference is that you never know how much is in the bank, or what > > your balance is. Your life is your inheritance. As soon as you realize > > this, you start trying to spend your life wisely..Herb Payson " Advice to > > the Sealorn " > > > > > > > > > > > For more information on Asian animal issues, please use the search feature on the AAPN website: http://www.aapn.org/ or search the list archives at: aapn > Please feel free to send any relevant news or comments to the list at aapn > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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