Bang Pae Waterfall
Cascading jungle waterfall beside the rehabilitation centre that brought the island's gibbons back.
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This guide to Bang Pae Waterfall in Phuket's Khao Phra Thaeo rainforest follows the disappearance of the island's white-handed gibbons, hunted by poachers who shot mothers from the trees so their babies could be rented out for beach photographs. You'll hear how a Royal Forest Department chief named Noppadol Preuksawan and American zoologist Terrance Dillon Morin joined forces in 1992 to build a rehabilitation centre beside the falls, aiming to teach captive gibbons to live wild again. Listen for a long, wailing call rising from the canopy as you stand by the pool.
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