Combating Illegal Wildlife Trade in Indonesia | Frantisek Příbrský

The pangolin and slow loris trade in Indonesia has gained a lot of media attention in the past few years, but in spite of this it has had only a small effect on combating the trade. Indonesia still loses up to 10,000 pangolins and thousands of slow lorises a year. Even though combating the illegal wildlife trade seems difficult, the case of the Kukang Rescue Program shows that it’s possible.
Listen to this episode and learn:
- What consequences illegal wildlife trade has for animals and humans
- How animal black markets work
- What it is like to run a rescue center for slow lorises and pangolins
- How running an environmental school and a coffee project helps protect nature
- And much more…
František Příbrský (*1988) is a Czech conservationist and field zoologist. Since 2014, he has been running The Kukang Rescue Program, an NGO which fights the illegal wildlife trade in Sumatra by rescuing and rehabilitating confiscated animals, working with local communities and educating local children through an environmental school.