If you see a small cute monkey-like animal that is furry, funny, with big eyes, childlike behavior and acrobatic, it's probably a gibbon. You will fall in love with it at first sight and its cuteness has made it a great target to poachers leaving them highly endangered.
How Gibbons Became Endangered
Three things that highly contributed to hurting of these cute animals and leaving them nearly extinct is deforestation, poaching, and tourism. Gibbons live in the jungle and deforestation leaves the animals homeless where some die and are at high risk of being poached. Tourism contributed to the poaching of gibbons. The hunters would sell them to people who keep them as pets. Touts also will parade the cute gibbons on tourist spots such as the beaches and will lure the tourists to take a photo with the cute animal at a fee. All these factors lead to the endangered gibbon animals. Since the baby gibbons are favorites, normally the mother has to be killed in order to get the baby.
Thanks to the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project that came to the aid of these cute animals and educate the public, raise awareness on their abuses. A tour to the center will give you a chance to see and hear the gibbons. They are held in large enclosures with a walk away where you will see a few of them at a distance. Learn their names, what they feed and their story of what they have been through. Informative guides will take you through the tour. They are interesting and very knowledgeable. Watch them as they sing, swing and play. They make loud noises and the kids will have fun watching them.
Gibbon Rehabilitation Project entirely relies on donation to run the center. If you wish you can leave a donation and save a gibbon. The center also runs a shop that sells merchandise such as T-shirts to fund the project. Make a difference by supporting the project during your vacation in Thailand.
