Dontations update

The urgent appeal is updated, and we would like to say a huge thank you to all our supporters on this blog and Facebook! A special thank you to the people that have donated this last month or so!
You really are making a big difference!! THANK YOU!

Ryan K - 60 $
Vanessa A - 15$
Steve C - 20$
Saskia K - 50$
Timo K - 25$
Teresa S - 50$
Diane H - 100$

And we would like to thank AWARE Germany and their supporters, which we received 1000 euros from this month! Thanks so much guys for your continuous support!

And a big thank you to Bianca for raising 360 euros for the primates in Lwiro!


Keepers Kahole and Jaques with Bavo the baboon

Good morning Lwiro!!!

I took my camera out first thing this morning to capture the day as it began. Every day is a busy day, but the mornings are always the most demanding. The food preparation team must pick out, weigh and wash all of the items for the day and there is a lot of food to be cooked. They then need to start sorting the food into groups for the day ahead. The monkey and chimpanzee keepers must move animals around so that they can successfully feed and clean all of the cages. They have to do all of this while the animals are demanding food…NOW!!!

Salamavilla (right) and Wima (left) demanding food from Claude the keeper!

Lume demanding breakfast...soon Lume!!!

Bahati and Christoff washing and sorting the food!

Mama Irene and Mama Bea chatting about the day ahead. Mama Bea sitting, cooking food for the animals!

Kaleshe cleaning out the Goma Group dormitory!

Kahole cleaning Shumi, the baboons cage!

Doublago our farmer planting some onions first thing in the morning!

Balumes new baby!

And this time it's a human baby! :)

Balume and Guilaine had a beautiful and healthy baby girl on the 21st of June.

Balumes baby Carmen

Balume is chief of staff in the CRPL, and a very important man for the running of the sanctuary. He is also amazing with the chimpanzees, all the chimps love him and he them!

Staff news

Mama Dorcas, who spent every second day as the keeper with the nursery group has been moved to the day sentinel position. While the day sentinel Amarni has become the nursery keeper. This change has occurred because some of the babies in the nursery group are becoming very strong and require a firm man that they respect in the cage. Mama Dorcas expressed concern that she didn’t have enough dominance over the babies, hence the change. Both Mama Dorcas and Amarni are happy with the arrangement. Pappy is still the other keeper with the nursery group, the babies love him.

We now have two night sentinels at the house where the nursery group is, for added security. Their names are Ombi and Leiberku. They are both doing a wonderful job.
A new keeper, Ombeni, has joined the keeping staff at the sanctuary. He is doing a great job and can even go inside the Goma group cage with the juvenile chimpanzees. Some of these chimpanzees are getting very big now and test the keepers dominance regularly. It is wonderful that Ombeni is so good with them. And a new farmer has been hired for the farm which helps to feed the animals. Doublago is very good, and the farm is going very well.

The farm