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Issue No. 01. August 2021
MAINNEWS

E-PAPER CONTAINING THE LATEST NEWS

MAINNEWS is issued by Bali Monkey Aid Network.

Art Direction and Editing: RiverValley Design.

Meet Merdut

Last week Bali Animal Defenders provided our
WhatsApp number to a concerned person who

spotted a monkey living in a very tiny space
with no sunlight or any comfort whatsoever.

MAIN's Emergency Rescue able to get the monkey out of
Team responded inmidiately his prison and transported him
to the distress call. What they to the clinic of Bali Central Vet.
found at the given location At the clinic the competent
was a male monkey housed staff of Dr Kadek conducted
in a hole in a wall with a living a medical examination. The
space of not more then 75 x monkey has already received
75 cm! The monkey used to his rabies vaccine. A feacial
be a pet but became agres- test confirmed that no worms MAIN's rescue team was
Merdut's
sive (monkeys are no pets!) or parasites are visible. Also shocked by Merdut's first decent
housing conditions.
and was put in the hole in total no outside wounds were de- meal at
isolation. He was there for al- tected. On the way to the clinic MAIN
ready 2 years. Assisted by Dr the Rescue Team named the After the full medical examina-
Sulham, the MAIN team was monkey Merdut. tion Merdut was transported
to the MAIN premises. He will
stay in quarantine for the next
14 days. After that he will be
After being seda- included in our release pro-
ted Merdut was gram.
rushed to Bali
Central Vet for a We would like to thank Dr Sul-
full medical exa- ham who accompanied MAIN's
mination. Emercency Rescue Team with

the rescue. And Bali Central
Vet for the medical examina-
tion.

MAIN is in the process of obtaining a foundation licence, a so
called 'Yayasan'. Due to Covid-19 this process has been con-
siderablay delayed. Therefore MAIN is temporarily operating
under the umbrella of JAAN (Jakarta Animal Aid Netwerk).