‘‘SO what happened was I sponsored a couple of snow leopards,” Warren Ellis says, trying to find the beginning of the story of how exactly he found himself starting a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia. It is a long story, and like all Ellis tales, meanderingly told.
It encompasses a palm oil-free beard balm, a Michael Hutchence documentary, a Dutch vet and a monkey with no arms. But the long and the short of it is that Ellis Park, in Sumatra, will soon offer a home for animals abused by humans and unable to be released back into the wild. “So,” Ellis concludes, “I guess I thought, ‘Why wouldn’t I try and feed some bloody monkeys and bears that have had the wrong thing done by them?’”