The SOSlidary raffle should have been held today, with it we get donations for the CRPL, Lwiro Primates, but as you know the ONCE raffles are cancelled until the state of emergency for COVID-19 is over. Therefore, we have decided that the final day will be the first day when the draws are reestablished. Here [...]
In these days of confinement we invite you to participate in the competition: DRAW A PRIMATE! A nice way to raise awareness of human primates through this initiative. Rules: Send us the drawing or painting to info@sosprimates.org with the author's details: name, age, title of the work, a sentence about what SOS Primates is and [...]
At CRPL Lwiro Primates they do incredible work rescuing orphaned primates from bushmeat consumption, like Gari, whom you can see his state before and now. From the top of the tree of his semi-freedom facility he watches us with curiosity. SOS Primates is one of the NGOs that support the CRPL. And in these days [...]
Today we share a video of the new arrivals at CRPL, Lwiro Primates. Like all new arrivals they are orphans of meat consumption. We never tire of sharing it: some local people pay for the meat for their consumption and the little ones are sold to illegal pet markets, laboratories or private zoological collections. [...]
Do you know our Teaming programme? For only 1 euro per month you can help the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Centre (LPRC), Lwiro Primates. With your annual donation you can pay for one and a half cans of powdered milk to feed the little orphans that come to us as a result of bushmeat consumption. It [...]
Sadly the trickle of orphans continues. Another little one has arrived as a result of the consumption of bushmeat. Adult chimpanzees are killed for this purpose and the young ones are tried to be sold through illegal trafficking. Soon we will tell you more about her, for the moment you can vote for her name [...]
This year Sant Jordi's was also cancelled... we won't be able to have our rose stand to get donations to send to CRPL, Lwiro Primates. However, if you want to surprise someone special, order a key ring handmade and hand painted by our friend and volunteer Almu Royán. There are pink and gorilla ones, and [...]
We start the week with a new section on the SOS Primates website "Our Values", where you can follow our "philosophy of action" regarding the environment and the impact of our actions. We are very proud of this, because even the most unsuspected actions that we do thousands of kilometres away... have an impact on [...]
Sometimes primates rescued by CRPL, @Lwiro Primates, do not survive because they arrive in very bad conditions. This has been the sad case of little "Dunia" (meaning "Earth" 🌍 in Swahili), for whom everything possible was tried last week, but her injuries were too great. "Dunia" was shot through and through, killing her mother when [...]
