http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:37:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wanted to share with you the message from Estelle, the dedicated director of the CCC, she sent to all our supporters and friends, after the great news: "Dear all, I'm a grand-mother of the first baby chimp born in the wild from a released chimp in Guinea! The CCC manager Matthieu, called ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/12/lotties-baby/ We just got a wonderful news from Matt from the release site! The team who is following the 5 chimps who are still at the released site saw today Lottie, released in June 2008,  with a new born baby! They don't know yet if it is a female or a male, but ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/11/first-baby-born-at-the-release-site/ As I promised you in the previous post, here are photos of Zoe and Fatim  Zoe in her tree zoe in her cage during the transport 3 photos of Fatim all photos with the courtesy of DVM Melanie PIGNOREL Take care http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/08/photos-of-zoe-and-fatim/ I just received fresh news from Matt, our manager.  for Coco and Zoe : Zoe, after 11 years in a cage in Conakry, had climbed her first tree last week! She loved it so much that she stayed in it for 2 days! Now she starts to feel more confortable and ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/07/coco-zoe-fatim/ Zoe safelly arrived at midnight on Monday night at the sanctuary! Almost 17hrs of travel, a long trip but she stayed calm all the way! She spent the night in her cage of transport with Matt and Melanie by her side. In the morning, they put Zoe in Coco's cage as it is ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/28/zoe-met-her-new-friend-coco/ Two photos of Zoe in her cage in Conakry... Still no news from Matt, hope to be able to tell you more about Zoe and her new friend Coco tomorrow! Take care http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/27/zoes-photos-in-conakry/ Tomorrow morning, Zoé, who spent the last 10 years of her life in the big city of Conakry as a pet, will weak up in the middle of the forest with new friends of her kind around her. Matt, Melanie and our driver are on their way to the sanctuary with ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/26/zoe-will-discover-the-forest-tomorrow/ Matt and the team got everything done in time to pick up Zoe tomorrow morning but they got a call few hours ago, the boat engine is not done yet...They have to wait Sunday morning. We all hope that Zoe will finally arrive safely at the sanctuary. It is sad to notice that Western ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/23/coco/ I spoke with Matt this afternoon. The situation is calm in Conakry, everything is opened, everybody works, even if everybody knows that something is going to happen at one point... Anyway, they managed to bring the boat engine and the car (which had also some problems) to the mecanics and hopefully ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/22/news-from-conakry-getting-prepared-to-bring-back-zoe/ I called Matthieu today. They can not fix the boat engine in Faranah so they will go to Conakry tomorrow. They will be carefull as the political situation is still tense in Conakry, but they have no choice as the boat engine is absolutly vital to reach the release camp ... http://chimpanzeeconservation.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/20/the-boat-engine/