The last Decem­ber, nine peo­ple from SOS Pri­ma­tes visi­ted Ugan­da on a natu­ral tour to see the main natio­nal parks (Mur­chi­son Falls, Kiba­le, Queen Eli­sa­beth, Bwin­di Impe­ne­tra­ble Forest, Lake Mbu­ro) and reser­ves ( like the Ziwa Rhino Sanc­tuary) of the Afri­can country.

They could wit­ness mar­ve­lous spe­cies, like moun­tain gori­llas, chim­pan­zees, rhi­nos, giraf­fes, elephants, leo­pards, lions, black cobras, and many bird
spe­cies (like the shoebill).

The group also visi­ted the Ngam­ba Island Chim­pan­zee Sanc­tuary, which is a mem­ber of the Pan Afri­can Sanc­tuary Allian­ce (PASA).

It shel­ters 52 chim­pan­zees in an isle on Lake Vic­to­ria. Two of the mem­bers of the expe­di­tion orga­ni­zed by Din­ka Tra­vel work in the Bar­ce­lo­na Zoo as care­ta­kers whi­le at the same time, they belong to the SOS Pri­ma­tes Board. Tha­t’s why they orga­ni­zed the deli­very of 157’6 kilo­grams of work equip­ment gran­ted by the Bar­ce­lo­na Zoo to the staff of the pri­ma­te sanctuary.

It did­n’t cost anything to our NGO, becau­se bag­ga­ge per­mit­ted by inter­na­tio­nal flights was emplo­yed, which was later reclai­med by the staff of the sanc­tuary when we arri­ved at the air­port. After a great amount of work, it was exci­ting when we visi­ted the sanc­tuary and were recei­ved by the uni­for­med wor­kers days later, as you can see in the photos.

Thank you to all who were invol­ved, espe­cially the SOS Pri­ma­tes volun­teers, that dedi­ca­te huge effort each day to help the pri­ma­tes in an altruis­tic manner.

Currently, we’­re making deals to send 1 pallet of uni­forms to Mala­wi next March. We’d like to do it becau­se of the annual mee­ting of the PASA mem­bers to help Afri­can pri­ma­te centers.

We need your help, so if you’d like more infor­ma­tion on this pro­ject or on how to help us, you can wri­te to info@sosprimates.org