Wildlife Rescue Centre Indonesia

Wildlife Rescue Centre Jogja was founded in June 2010 by YKAY (Yayasan Konservasi Alam Yogyakarta) foundation which works closely with the Princess of Yogyakarta. 

The centre is  an NGO animal rescue centre based in the small, traditional village of Sendangsari of the Kulon Progo district, West Yogyakarta. It’s approximately 1 hour drive from Adisutjipto International Airport, Yogyakarta. We are a sanctuary for a variety of Indonesian wildlife that have been saved from the illegal pet trade within the island of Java.

Fuze Ecoteer has been supporting the wildlife rescue centre since 2013 by working together forming successful volunteer and school programmes

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Volunteer with Wildlife rescue centre

Impact Stats in 2019

Aim

 to have no animals in need of rehabilitation

Objectives

  • to provide care for injured animals and release back to the wild as soon as possible

  • to provide care for animals rescued from the illegal wildlife trade and if possible facilitate them going back to the wild.

  • to provide a home for animals to badly negatively affected by humans they are unable to be rehabilitated.
  • to encourage the local people to no longer keep animals as pets.


Internships

If you want a career in animal and wildlife care then an internship would be suitable for you. Especially bird lovers.


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Volunteer

The centre has 165 animals to care for and really needs your helping hands. The centre is not open to the public so can’t afford alot of staff so volunteers really are a big help and focus on the care of the animals and the enrichment activities.
This project is suitable for people looking to get down and dirty helping care for wildlife caught in the illegal wildlife trade on a daily basis.


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Buy Our merchandise

If you want to support the cause but unable to join physically then the best way to support our cause is to buy merchandise where 51% of the fee goes to the project.


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the centre below

Animal care volunteer project Indonesia

Our Residents

There are currently 165 animals at the wildlife rescue centre but that number is constantly changing. We have a variety of species that currently includes: orangutan, siamang gibbons, owa gibbons, macaques, sun bears, eagles, parrots, bear cats, crocodiles, cassowary and several others. 

Every resident has their own individual story of how they came to be here. The animals are rescued from being kept illegally, usually as pets and usually had been kept in extremely unfit and unhealthy conditions. They may have come from exotic pet traffickers, private owners, unlicensed commercial businesses such as restaurants or illegal zoos and occasionally intercepted online bidding wars. They are brought to WRC by Forest Rangers, other NGOs, Indonesian police or the private owners donate them themselves if they can no longer care for the animal.

Here is an article about one of the successful releases back to the wild of a Javan Hawk Eagle from the wildlife rescue centre.

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Turtle Adoption

You can adopt one of our turtles in the Perhentian islands.  Through our turtle photo ID database we have identified over 260 turtles that have been seen around the Perhentian Islands.  Support our important conservation and adopt today.

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