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“Welcome to Chiang Mai”

01/01/2014

“Welcome to Chiang Mai!” Those were the warm words that always greeted me when I met Tony Smallwood after an absence from Chiang Mai. Tony was the inspiration behind my flying adventures, and my mentor. He taught many of us the value of animal conservation and how to combine our respective talents to help preserve

Jan – Injured Gibbon Airlifted to Phuket

17/11/2023

Sadly, news reached The Flying Scouts that Jan, a female gibbon previously released in Ban Jam Pee, had been attacked by a rival gibbon family,…

Northern re-introduction of Gibbons resumes.

11/07/2022

The Flying Scouts are happy to report that despite a torrid time during Covid-19, the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project (GRP) has…

Mee gives birth – Recently Airlifted Mee (& Champ) have given birth to…

01/06/2016

Update - June 2016 Mee (and Champ) gives birth.. Mee and Champ, recently airlifted from Phuket to Chiang Mai have given birth to a healthy…

Four Gibbons, Mee, Champ, EyeEye & Annie, Airlifted

01/06/2016

Update - May 2016 Four Gibbons, Mee, Champ, EyeEye & Annie, Airlifted from Phuket for release in Chiang Mai later this year.…

Naun & Nat have a baby boy in Chiang Mai

01/04/2015

Update - April 2015 Naun's baby, Little Tony, is thriving in Chiang Mai and being well taken care of by his mother, who has quickly learnt…

Beauty and family set for release in Chiang Mai

14/09/2014

Update - September 2014 Bobby and Songkran in the wild. - Video of the release earlier this year. Dodo, Beauty and Dr Tum are set to be…

Bambam and family have been moved back to Phuket – Dodo and family moved for…

20/07/2014

Update - July 2014 The painful, but necessary decision has been taken to move Bambam and family back to Phuket where her eventual blindness…

The Great Gibbon Fly Out – Gibbon Airlift featured in The Phuket Gazette.

15/07/2014

PHUKET: A network of light aircraft owners known as the Flying Scouts are pitching in to save the environment through a number of innovative…

Third Training Cage, kindly donated and built in Phuket by YSE Marine, arrives in…

01/07/2014

Update - June 2016 Mee (and Champ) gives birth.. Mee and Champ, recently airlifted from Phuket to Chiang Mai have given birth to a healthy…

Bobby and Songran released in Chiang Mai!

17/06/2014

Update - June 17 2014 Bobby and Songkran were released! It took a few days, but the first Gibbons to be reintroduced back into the wild in…

Give a Gibbon a chance for a new life…

01/06/2014

Most of the Gibbons we take care of come to us in a pitiful state. Malnourished, abused, traumatised and often diseased. It takes years of…

Baan Jam Pee

01/06/2014

Baan Jam Pee Finding a suitable location in Chiang Mai, that assured the sustainability of a long term Gibbon Release programme was a…

Bambam has developed a cataract

01/06/2014

Update - June 2014 Unfortunately, Bambam has developed a cataract in her right eye, and a suspected infection in her left eye. Gibbons are…

The Release

01/05/2014

Update - May 2014 Work has begun to construct a bamboo training cage at the release site in order for BamBam and family to get used to their…

Ticket to Freedom

01/01/2014

Chiang Mai lies approximately 1220Km North of Phuket. It is an arduous two-three day journey by car for humans, let alone for frightened…