The Slow Loris Fund was established in 2011 at Oxford Brookes University in acknowledgement of the dedicated conservation work of Professor Anna Nekaris, under the Nocturnal Primate Research Group, established in 1993.
The Little Fireface Project (named after the Sundanese word for slow loris and representing nocturnal animals in general, whose eyes glow in torchlight!) is the main project under this fund, with a long-term field project based in Java, Indonesia.
The team also works throughout South and Southeast Asia and even in Africa on pottos and angwantibos, and support loris research and captive management throughout the world.
Donations help protect the lorises via supporting:
- monitoring and mitigating illegal wildlife trade through market surveys, enforcement training, and working with social media sites
- ecological field work on wild and reintroduced slow lorises
- conservation education activities in slow loris range countries as well as zoos and rescue centres
- empowerment projects with local communities, including wildlife friendly farming and canopy bridge building initiatives
- studentships to be able to study for Masters and PhD degrees to carry out these important studies with scholarships.
