Fieldwork Then & Now: Slow Loris Outreach Week 2019
As we embark on our 8th annual Slow Loris Outreach Week (you can see resources here!), as the Director of the Little Fireface Project,…
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Cipganti Pride Days and Cipaganti’s Got Talent!
The start of January also saw the start of the Cipganti Pride Days. The two day event held on the 11th and 12th of…
Read MoreConservation awards for online awareness and global music action!
Thursday’s conservation awards show how lorises can be brought to the attention of the public in totally different ways! Conservation Awareness: iJustine Many…
Read MoreSlow Loris Conservation Awards: Journalism and Sports
Our Wednesday the 19th awards go to two special recipients. Loris Conservation Action: John Platt For Loris Conservation Action, we applaud John Platt a journalist covering…
Read MoreThe sad new trend in Phuket’s tourist areas –slow lorises as photo-props
By Petra Osterberg There is clearly a lucrative market for wildlife as photo–prop animals in Phuket’s crowded tourist areas. For decades hundreds of thousands…
Read MoreSlow Loris Conservation Awards: Day 1 – Rock ‘n’ Roll!
Each day this week, we will be issuing awards for efforts in loris conservation! Our awardees probably have no idea they have helped loris…
Read MoreLoris Awareness Week Almost here! Prepare!
For those who have been following the Little Fireface Project, you will know that Loris Awareness week starts the 16th of September. This is…
Read MoreLoris Fact 7: The Myth About Loris Nurseries
The famous ‘Tickling Slow Loris Video’ uploaded in 2009 by Dmitry Sergeyev includes the following note by the uploaders… 1. First of all, we…
Read MoreLoris Fact 6: You can’t chew with somebody else’s teeth
Well that’s a Yiddish proverb, but the loris would agree, and most lorises really love their teeth. Being strepsirrhine primates, lorises have really neat…
Read MoreLoris Fact 3: I wanna hold your hand! Loris hands and feet…
Loris Awareness Week Fact 3: The anatomy: Like all primates, lorises have grasping hands and feet…to an extreme. To put it anatomically, the hands and…
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