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DARWIN AFTERNOONS AND SOS PRIMATES: CONFERENCE ABOUT THE JAGUAR RESCUE CENTER

2025-12-23T09:43:10+01:00Friday, 7 November, 2025|

We invite you to join the free online talk organized by SOS Primates and the Darwin Foundation as part of the "Darwin Afternoons and SOS Primates" program. The talk is titled "The New World Primates of the Jaguar Rescue Center (Costa Rica)", hosted by its Director and Co-founder, Encar García. To attend, please click the [...]

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PREPARE YOUR GIFTS THINKING OF SOS PRIMATES.

2025-12-23T09:45:45+01:00Friday, 31 October, 2025|

The "congolinas" are little dolls that represent the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who are the backbone of their families, working hard while carrying their children on their backs. These dolls are handmade by a group of women with disabilities from Heri Kwetu, located near the CRPL, Lwiro Primates, in the same country. [...]

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SOS Primates Calendar also at JRC, Costa Rica

2026-02-20T09:15:34+01:00Wednesday, 22 October, 2025|

SOS Primates calendar is also available at Jaguar Rescue Centre’s gift shop in Costa Rica. As such, visitors of the guided tours that go through the centre can acquire a 2026 calendar with stunning pictures and exclusive design by our NGO. All the profits are destined to said recovery centre that houses not only 3 [...]

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Solidarity transport chain: thank you to Komodo Zoo Services SL

2026-02-20T09:11:05+01:00Monday, 13 October, 2025|

At SOS Primates we can affirm that almost in its entirety of shipments of material among helping groups through the geography of our country we count on people, companies and charitable institutions that help us transporting materials for fairs, boxes or luggage with uniform and other equipment for primate rehabilitation centres. Komodo Zoo Services S.L. [...]

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Thank you to those who donated at Giving for Apes 2025

2026-02-20T09:04:29+01:00Thursday, 9 October, 2025|

From LPRC, Lwiro Primates, in DRCongo, we receive gratitude for the donations at Giving for Apes. SOS Primates has been one of the 685 donors that made possible fundraising $43,856 destined to feed over 200 orphan primates that live at LPRC, such as Tony, pictured. Thank you to the organisation of this event for helping [...]

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SOS Primates at the Primate Monograph at the Madrid Zoo Aquarium.

2026-02-20T08:58:54+01:00Wednesday, 8 October, 2025|

This November SOS Primates will be present at the management, maintenance and conservation of primates workshop organised by Zoo Aquarium de Madrid with the talk “SOS Primates: how to help rehabilitation centres. Examples” by Raúl Cabrera, president of our association. We will take this opportunity to bring some fundraising materials made at DRCongo. If you [...]

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SOS Primates at the 7th Fair for Animal Sensitivity, Móstoles”

2026-02-20T08:52:06+01:00Sunday, 5 October, 2025|

On the 5th of October we attended the 7th Fair for Animal Sensitivity in Móstoles, Madrid. Many people approached our stand. Thank you to @ASA-Asociación por la sensibilidad animal for inviting us. And thank you to our team of volunteers, which is our biggest treasure: María, Natalia and Mar. The donations received will be destined [...]

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Farewell Dr. Goodall, and thank you for your invaluable work”

2026-02-20T08:48:28+01:00Thursday, 2 October, 2025|

Those who love animals, not just primates, are saddened by the news. On the past 1st of October, Dr. Jane Goodall left us, a role model for everyone. A person that arrived in Tanzania, at a very young age, to study Gombe’s chimpanzees, and that has greatly contributed to the science and conservation of chimps, [...]

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Gorilla International Day

2026-02-20T08:42:36+01:00Wednesday, 24 September, 2025|

On Gorilla International Day, we share that one of the centres SOS Primates supports since its creation, the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Centre (LPRC), Lwiro Primates, collaborates with the conservation of Grauer’s Gorilla, endemic to DRCongo and a true treasure that must be preserved. The centre has rescued some orphans, product of poaching, such as Kalonge [...]

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SOS primates at Zoo Aquarium de Madrid on international primate day 2025

2026-02-20T09:21:07+01:00Wednesday, 24 September, 2025|

Our colleagues at SOS Primates were at Zoo Aquarium de Madrid sharing information about primates, the dangers they face and fundraising towards LPRC, Lwiro Primates, at the DRCongo, which lately has been living in a situation of war conflict in its surroundings, where not only human primates are the most affected. Wars bring along primate [...]

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