Kalo arrives safely in the UK

The slow loris named Kalo, found by the police in a house in Male’ during a drug raid, has been taken to the UK.

UK media has reported that the animal arrived at the Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre last week.

This is the first time that the departure of a protected animal has been organised in the Maldives.

The slow loris spent the past eight months in Dhoonidhoo under the care of the police, where it received the name Kalo. It was flown to the UK on British Airlines.

According to the BBC, Kalo will spend the next four months in quarantine at Monkey World, after which he will join a slow loris called Doris, who has been without a companion since arriving in the UK 15 years ago.

Maldives is party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), under which the slow loris is a protected species.