Last Novem­ber we sent to Libe­ria 95 kg of equip­ment dona­ted by the Bar­ce­lo­na Zoo for the care­ta­kers of the Libas­sa Wild­li­fe Sanc­tuary — LiWi­Sa, the first and only ani­mal res­cue cen­ter in said country. This orga­ni­za­tion aims to res­cue, reha­bi­li­ta­te, and libe­ra­te, when it is pos­si­ble, the fau­na that arri­ves at the center.

It ope­ned in 2017 and, sin­ce then, more than 800 ani­mals have arri­ved, appro­xi­ma­tely half having been liberated.

The spe­cies that enter are diver­se, inclu­ding amphi­bians, rep­ti­les, birds, and mam­mals, com­pri­sing pan­go­lins and pri­ma­tes of 7 dif­fe­rent spe­cies, such as Elio (in the pho­to), a gray man­ga­bey offs­pring who beca­me an orphan after losing his mother due to poaching.

The cen­ter not only works for wild­li­fe con­ser­va­tion but also for the local com­mu­nity. It carries out edu­ca­tio­nal pro­grams to pro­mo­te the habi­tat and its flo­ra and fauna.

SOS Pri­ma­tes mana­ges and sends the mate­rial dona­ted by the zoo to wild­li­fe reco­very cen­ters. This case was not easy to coor­di­na­te sin­ce the trip inclu­ded a jour­ney by road and boat, and the enti­re pro­cess invol­ved a lot of time. Des­pi­te the cha­llen­ges, we are espe­cially happy to see that Libas­sa has sewn its logo on the uni­forms, being the first to do so.

In the pho­tos, you can see some of the wor­kers in uni­forms carrying out their tasks.

Many thanks to ever­yo­ne invol­ved; to the Bar­ce­lo­na Zoo, Libas­sa (espe­cially Susan Wiper, its Direc­tor) without for­get­ting the SOS Pri­ma­tes team who works altruis­ti­cally on this uni­form project.

If you tra­vel to any of the coun­tries whe­re the­re are wild­li­fe reco­very cen­ters, con­tact us to help bring this valua­ble mate­rial to them. More infor­ma­tion at: info@sosprimates.org

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