
Background
About Mr. Somporn
Since 1957, Mr. Somporn has been teaching monkeys to climb trees and pick coconuts. As his parents were coconut farmers, Somporn experienced the traditional use of monkeys for the harvest of coconuts. These monkeys were often beaten by their owners when they didn’t perform as expected (e.g. when they left ripe coconuts on the tree). This gave him the idea to teach monkeys in a better way. His Buddhist teacher Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (https://en.wikipedia.org/

We do not just have monkeys at the monkeyschool. We also have many dogs and a beautiful garden.
