fresh news from the bush
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 24 2009 | By: chris colin
I jus got a call from Estelle, from the release site!
The group of 5 released chimps who are daily followed are doing well. Robert removed again his VHF collar few days ago. If you remember our post about the released chimps, we explained that when we released the chimps more than a year ago, Robert left the others few days after and went far away in the forest. We found him thanks to his VHF/Argos collar which was transmitting his GPS location. But he removed it 3 weeks after the release! We managed to locate him and bring him back to the release site with some females in August 2008 and he stayed there since then.
Robert was re-equiped with a new simple VHF collar in July this year, like the 4 other chimps of his group, but apparently, he does not really like collar at all as he removed it again… Anyway, the team managed to got the collar back and they will try to put it back on Robert without anaesthesia… quite a challenge! But he is a sweet and smart male!
Robert without his collar
The news from the sanctuary: Fatim is doing great thanks to the fluconazol! And thanks to you guys, we are going to be able to get enough fluconazol to treat her!
The group of babies is doing well, they all recovered from the respiratory diseases epidemic.
The rains are still heavy. The “road” to the sanctuary (81km from Faranah, the 1st town where we go every WE to buy supplies) is really difficult and in poor conditions, apparently it has never been like that! It takes 6h30 to reach Faranah from the sanctuary! At the end of the rainy season, they will need to hire villagers to fix the road with blocks, gravel and sand…
The flooded road…
Take care,
Chris
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Project Primate, Inc. provides support to the Chimpanzee Conservation Center in Guinea which serves as a chimpanzee rehabilitation sanctuary for orphaned and confiscated western chimpanzees and has as its primary objectives the release of these orphans back into the wild and the protection of a national park. -
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Donations Received
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- Sep 19th Lucia C. USD50.00
- Sep 14th Mary H. USD110.00
- Sep 14th Meghan H. USD24.00
- Sep 13th Kathy S. USD110.00
- Sep 12th Ji-in L. USD80.00
- Jul 11th Lucia C. USD30.00
- Jul 9th Sherri S. USD55.00
- Jul 9th Wanda H. USD22.00
3 Responses to “fresh news from the bush”
patyflo, on 24 Sep 2009
décidement Robert n’aime pas les bijoux, je crois qu’il veut la liberté totale sans etre pisté……
Ils sont quand meme terribles ces humains de vouloir le suivre continuellement…….
Vraiment les conditions atmospheriques sont catastrophiques sur tous les pays d’Afrique de l’ouest, que d’inondations partout dans les villes et dans les endroits plus isolés.
Nous pensons à vous tous, il vous en faut de l’amour pour le chimps pour supporter vos conditions de vie…..
Il y a bientot de la rescousse qui arrive……courage….
Carryl Edwards, on 25 Sep 2009
I glad to hear the baby chimps are doing well and feeling better. How far away is the release site from the sanctuary? Keep up the good work! Take care and stay dry. Carryl Edwards
chris colin, on 25 Sep 2009
Hey Carryl, the release site is at 30km by road from the sanctuary. We use the Niger river to reach it.
Thanks for your support!
Chris
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