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Cefn yr Erw Primate Sanctuary

Category : Pets & Animals

Type: Public Membership
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Founded: May 14, 2008 10:06 PM
Location: Abercrave
Wales-UK
Member(s): 133
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Cefn-yr-Erw Primate Sanctuary is in the Swansea Valley in the lovely Brecon Beacons National Park area of South Wales. Formerly a traditional Welsh hill farm, the sanctuary now rescues and provides a home for many types of unwanted animals, especially primates, such as chimpanzees, baboons, spider monkeys, capuchins and marmosets .


Cefn-yr-Erw welcomes visitors to see the animals and the work we do. A number of them have come from zoos and laboratories and some have suffered mistreatment and deprivation in their earlier lives. As they are not equipped for survival in the wild we can only endeavour to make the rest of their lives as enjoyable and stress free as possible.


Our policy is not to breed animals for sale or exchange and to focus on rescuing captive animals in need, with a view to improving the quality of their lives. We regularly see dramatic evidence of how animals benefit from a loving, caring environment. Some are very nervous and exhibiting behavioural problems when they first arrive at Cefn-yr-Erw, but with the right care and attention they integrate with others and begin to interact socially with their carers.
Our carers get to know each animal personally and learn to respond to its particular needs. In return animals will often accept humans as if they were a family member.




We continue to monitor news items and keep in touch with our contacts around the World in a constant vigil to reduce animal cruelty and to offer long term solutions wherever possible. The costs can be significant and in the end a satisfactory outcome is not always possible, leaving us to count the cost of failure, but overall our success rate has been very encouraging and the rewards are here, at Cefn-yr-Erw, for visitors to see and enjoy.


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UK actors James Corden and Sheridan Smith , who are both great animal lovers, recently made a special visit to Cefn-yr-Erw Primate Sanctuary. They were so pleased to meet the animals that both agreed to become patrons of the sanctuary.
more : http://www.cefn-yr-erw.co.uk/patrons.htm

Former Member of the Stereophonics Stuart Cable is the newest patron of the sanctuary, I'm sure that both Graham and Jan are proud to have Stuart onboard : http://www.welshstars.co.uk/artistes/stuart_cable.html

Celebrity actor and television personality Graham Norton is the newest patron to the sanctuary. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636218/




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I'M A LABRATORY MONKEY..GET ME OUTA HERE !!


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An e-mail sent to Cefn-Yr-Erw marked Urgent was from GRAAL in France, asking if it was possible for us to provide a home for a Crab Eating Macaque from a French Laboratory. His name was Pozzi and if no home was found for him by the end of December 2007 then he would be sent to another laboratory to take part in a testing program. This e-mail reached us on the 6th of December 2007.

Read about Pozzie's rescue here:
Pozzie's Rescue
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