A couple months ago SOS Pri­ma­tes sent 23kg of sup­plies dona­ted by Zoo de Bar­ce­lo­na to Sana­ga-Yong Chim­pan­zee Res­cue, a chim­pan­zee res­cue cen­tre loca­ted in Came­roon, in the remo­te jun­gle of Wall-Mbargue.

Their chim­pan­zees are orphans that, as Lei­lah in the pic­tu­re, have been res­cued from the ille­gal bush­meat tra­de (the adults are con­su­med and the offs­pring is sold ille­gally for the pet tra­de or traf­fic­ked to Asia­tic zoos that do not adhe­re to inter­na­tio­nal regulations).

At Sana­ga Yong chim­pan­zees find refu­ge for life, whe­re they are reuni­ted with other cons­pe­ci­fics and whe­re they recei­ve exce­llent care. The cen­tre works along­si­de natio­nal autho­ri­ties on sei­zu­res, thanks to which the orphans have a home.

Currently hou­sing 78 chim­pan­zees of ages 2 to over 50 years old. In addi­tion they under­ta­ke con­ser­va­tion pro­jects, edu­ca­tion and help the local communities.

You can find further infor­ma­tion about Sana­ga Yong on their web­si­te https://www.sychimprescue.org/

The sup­plies dona­ted by the zoo and mana­ged by SOS Pri­ma­tes was sent through a colla­bo­ra­tor that was tra­ve­lling to Paris, and offe­red a great help to the centre’s wor­kers. In the pic­tu­res, the team poses for a group pic­tu­re and dif­fe­rent sce­nes of them under­ta­king their cru­cial task for the chim­pan­zee wellbeing.

If you know of any cen­tre that could be inter­es­ted or if you are plan­ning to tra­vel to any country and you would like to help us by taking sup­plies, you can con­tact us at info@sosprimates.org

We would like to extend our gra­ti­tu­de to Sana­ga Yong for their kind­ness, to Gregg Tully for their help with mana­ge­ment, and to Zoo de Bar­ce­lo­na for their dona­tion, and our volun­teers for making our work possible.