Working for primate welfare and conservation
Aaron is our fifth FlyingMonkey (MONOVoldador)! Want to know why he decided to skydive for Mona?
“I skydived for Mona because I’m an animal lover and fight for animal rights. I’ve always wanted to skydive and what better way to do so than by supporting a good cause and people that compensate the meanness and cruelty of others by doing some good in this world”
Do you want to help us and skydive for Mona? Contact us mj.sanchez@fundacionmona.org
We are in the starting blocks for saturday, a day of fun and solidarity! You cannot miss this, everyone’s invited so bring along your family and friends!
During the entire day (from 10 am to 5 pm) you will be able to participate in the following:
Face-painting: Become a flyingmonkey for the day! (1€)
Research activity: Are you more and less intelligent than a chimp? Will you dare to take on this challenge? (1€)
Shirt painting: Paint the chimp, macaque, gorila, primate of your choice onto a shirt! We will help you!
Drawing workshop: Let your imagination run free while drawing a flying monkey! (free)
Hop onto a small plane: Are you afraid of heights? Do not worry, you can still visit a plane without being 4,000 meters high in the air! (Free)
‘How does a parachute work?’ Workshop: Have you ever wondered how a parachute works and how to you deploy it? And once deployed, how do you fold it? During this workshop, we will show you all that! (Free)
Story-telling: do you like tales? Come to the reading of the children’s book Ximpatic (1€)
When: Saturday September 19th
Where: Skydive center Skydive Empuriabrava (Girona)
What time: 10 am to 5 pm
How much: Free entry
Price of Skydive: 270 euros, including the donation to MONA.
Price of activities :0-1 euro.
For more information, don’t hesite to contact mj.sanchez@fundacionmona.org
Marta Borràs, tandem skydiver part of the 2015 Flyingmonkeys team.
“My motivation for signing up for this event has been a combination of several dreams of mine. I have been wanting to skydive for a while now, but I didn’t want to do it by myself and no one wanted to jump with me. But then I saw this event and thought ‘perfect, that’s my only opportunity! I will finally be able to skydive and all at the same time I’ll do it for a good cause!’
I’ve loved animals since I was a kid, they’ve always held a special place in my heart! This love and empathy that I had and still have for them was so strong that 10 years ago I decided to become vegan, it was an important step for me and I truly felt like I needed to do it. I work with different associations and participate in events in order to raise money for animals and educate society on captivity in places such as : circuses, dolphinariums ..“
Are YOU ready to take the plunge and jump to help MONA? Contact us: mj.sanchez@fundacionmona.org
Alix , this brave soul tells us why she signed up: “I decided to tandem skydive for the MONA foundation because they do amazing work for primates and they need all the help they can get! But I also wanted to challenge myself!“
Do you also want to tandem skydive for MONA?
More information : http://fundacionmona.org/skymona-2015-monosvoladores-ii-edicion/
Or contact us mj.sanchez@fundacionmona.org
On September 19th, the MONA Foundation will be back in its monkey costume and will once again skydive for a great cause : to give Cheeta a second chance.
Here at Mona we are getting ready to transit Cheeta from her zoo in Fuerteventura to our center, she is the sole survivor of a zoo escape. Unforntunetly, King and Felipa, Cheeta’s family were killed during the escape.
This year we are hoping to put together a group of skydivers to make up a valient and dynamic team : the Flyingmonkeys. You will skydive in tamdem, therefore there is no need to be an experienced skydiver, all you need is courage, a monkey costume and the desire to have a good time. The experts, Skydive Empuriabrava will take care of the rest. This event is a novelty in Spain, however in other countries like England it has been very comun way of raising funds.
A minute long 4 000 meters free fall, which will give you an adrenaline rush, you will feel free as a bird! How does that sound? Fun? Then don’t wait one more second and sign up!
This time there will not only be jumps! Even if you’re not looking for an adrenaline rush there will be a lot of activities for you to do right here on the ground! We have organized a full day of activies for all ages!
There will be stands and activities like: Face painting, Fashion MonaWeek, young researchers, storytelling, and exhibition of skydiving dubbers, a visit in one of the planes, live music by the rock group ‘Pelut’, a presentation by famous skydiver Santi Corella (pioneer in the world of skydiving with free fall two world records) of his new book ‘Frontera Límite’, a bar and restaurant service and many more surprises!
During the last edition, 5 brave flyingmonkeys took the jump and raised more than 5 000 euros that Mona used to purchase new veterinary equipment! This year our goal is to raise part of the 18 000 euros that we need to take Cheeta in, buy her food for one year and heal the bullet wounds she received during the escape.
If you’ve always dreamed of skydiving then look no further! Sign up to make your dream a reality and at the same give back to a worthy cause!
For more information contact mj.sanchez@fundacionmona.org
Organizers: Fundació MONA with the firm TerraEvents, that is part of MONASupport, empresas solidarias. Coalbora SkyDive Empuribrava
With the help of: SkyDive Empuriabrava, Butterfly Park Empuriabrava, Bowling Empuriabrava, Engels & Volkers, Pelut, Windoor túnel de viento, Diari de Girona, Setmanari Empordà, Ara.cat, Catalunya Aventura, Hotel Melià Golf Vichy Catalan, Restaurant Can Xiquet
Tomorrow will mark a week since the first airing of the program Vaya Fauna. Social media has been blowing up and we hope that Tele5 takes note. And not only them, but also our entire society! The program ranked number 1 in ratings all through Spain and Catalunya.
For the past 15 years we have conscientiously worked educating children and adults about respecting the animals and the environment, and we have noticed a small positive change with our visitors. We have started to notice that more information is circulating about the protection of animals and general more awareness coming from the people.
However, to our great horror, this past July 1st aired the program Vaya Fauna on Tele5. The latter goes against all the work that we have done to get the country up to speed on animal protection. Vaya Fauna is an old and dusty show that could be coming straight out of the Middle Ages. It showcases a trumpet playing bear, that jumps and does cartwheels, and a baby feline used only as a photo prop all while promoting the holding of exotic animals as pets… In the first show, no primate was showcased but we are locked and loaded for the day a macaque or baboon comes walking out in a costume and made to do silly things.
The MONA Foundation has been working towards rescuing primates that have worked in the circus, done shows, appeared on Tv, etc, since 2001. The individuals that arrive at our sanctuary are in horrid conditions and the worst is that those primates have had a terrible life full of mistreatments, cruelty and social isolation just so that someone at home could laugh at a chimpanzee in an ad or even receive a birthday card with a ‘smiling’ chimp on it. Then for years you try to cure their psychological problems, their auto inflicted wounds, their pathologic fears, their apathy… just so a so called expert can go about telling you that ‘that’s not cruelty, they talk to them and they treat them well’.
Please sign this petition fo Tele5 to give Vaya Fauna the axe.
Mona se ha puesto en contacto con el Seprona de Mallorca para poder recabar más información sobre la historia y la situación actual de estos chimpancés y para ofrecer nuestras instalaciones en caso de que fuesen necesarias para Adán, el chimpancé que todavía no ha sido encontrado y que esperemos que capturen con vida.
La ayuda para Eva ha llegado demasiado tarde pero todavía estamos a tiempo de ayudar a Adán. Al parecer, Adán era propiedad de un particular, que le tenía atado con una cadena en una gasolinera. Por si esto no fuera suficiente, algunas fuentes con las que hemos hablado nos han dicho que Adán era consumidor habitual de cerveza, llegando a ser considerado alcohólico en esa época. Después de este calvario, finalmente llegó al Safari de Sa Coma, pasando a ser propiedad de éste mismo. Fue de aquí de donde se escapó junto con Eva, una hembra que fue abatida a tiros el mismo día de la huida.
Ver la Noticia del Diario de Mallorca.
Esperamos que encuentren Adán y que lo capturen con vida, para poder ofrecerle después de todo lo que ha vivido, una vida mejor en Mona.
Os mantendremos informados.
¡¡¡Por fin ha llegado el momento!!! Ya hemos REVISADO Y ARREGLADO los dientes afectados de nuestra chimpancé África (¡y era más de un diente!). Había mucho que hacer, pero nuestro maravilloso dentista Gerardo y su equipo, junto a nuestro veterinario Josep, ¡lo han logrado!
No podemos estar 100% seguros pero lo más probable es que su dentadura se dañara cuando cazaron al grupo de África y la captaron a ella en su hábitat natural en África (rompiéndosele la mandíbula al caer de un árbol). A continuación, como era un animal ilegal, no había ningún veterinario que pudiera revisar y curar su mandíbula rota y la dieta humana tampoco mejoraba su estado de salud. Pero por fin hemos conseguido ayudar a África en este aspecto.
Aquí os dejamos el vídeo de ese día
(¡¡solo para gente que no tiene fobia al dentista!!)
Estamos muy contentos con los resultados. África, después de pocos días, ya ha empezado a comer con normalidad otra vez. Un éxito y un gran alivio, sabiendo que la pequeña África ya no tiene que sufrir más por sus dientes.
Muchas gracias por vuestro apoyo, y gracias a Montse por habernos ayudado con los costes de la máquina de anestesia nueva. ¡¡¡Un dinero muy bien invertido considerando que es para hacer más seguras las intervenciones como el arreglo de los dientes de África!!!
¡Por fin! Por primera vez después de 30 años en soledad, Linda tiene compañeros (Julio y Jim) para tocarse, abrazarse y jugar. Mira el emotivo encuentro entre Linda y sus nuevos amigos. Estamos encantados de ver estas imágenes… ¡estos momentos tan emocionantes son lo que motiva a centros de rescate a seguir adelante a pesar de todas las limitaciones y dificultades!
Ver video
Hemos recibido una gran noticia de parte de nuestros amigos del Santuario Stichting AAP en Holanda: ¡por fin Linda ha podido visitar sus nuevas instalaciones en el exterior!
Primero estaba muy nerviosa, probablemente porque nunca había tenido tanta libertad para moverse, saltar y trepar o, simplemente, porque no podía creerse que tanto espacio fuera para ella. No se atrevía a salir sin antes familiarizarse al máximo con cada nuevo sonido y con el ruido que hacían los otros chimpancés de su alrededor, pero poco a poco su curiosidad se ha ido imponiendo y ha empezado a explorar el exterior.
¡Haz clic aquí para ver el vídeo de Linda en su nuevo hogar!
Estamos totalmente encantados de ver estas imágenes suyas después de haber sido testigos de la horrible situación en la que se encontraba en el pasado. Nos hubiera encantado poder acogerla aquí en MONA, pero estamos igual de felices sabiendo que nuestros amigos de AAP le ofrecerán una fantástica vida entre otros chimpancés afectados por su misma enfermedad.
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