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Basma’s Progress
Basma is growing into a healthy young girl with her mother Babes and all the group around her. She has had no health or social problems and has become a part of the group! She is still very young (her...
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Sarah gets bigger and bolder!
Young Sarah came to us in April this year, the last chimp that we have been able to accept at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary as we are at maximum capacity until we can erect much needed semi-wild...
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Moves afoot…..
Thanks to IPPL UK we are starting to make a little bit of space at Tacugama so that we can start to address the waiting list of chimps that has sadly been building up as we are at full capacity. IPPL...
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Another bush hunting orphan arrives at Tacugama
We received an urgent call last week from Addax Bioenergy to say that a young, injured chimpanzee had been seen at a village close to their operations and that they were enlisting the help of the...
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Nico’s road to recovery
Slowly but steadily, Nico’s machete wounds are healing. As for his fractured bone, we had to do a new cast (he chewed part of the first one). We were lucky to have the help from an experienced...
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When Perry met Molly…
The third in our recent introductions of chimps. – time for Perry to meet Molly. Even very young chimps can become set in their ways and while Molly was very excited to meet her new playmate, Perry...
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Influx of chimpanzee orphans arrives at Tacugama
The first eight months of 2012 has seen Tacugama receiving eight new orphan chimpanzees, the last 5 of which have arrived in less than two months putting our quarantine team at full stretch. In the...
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“Somebody” arrives at Tacugama – that’s her name!
A chimp called Somebody…at times this name causes confusion! Meet Somebody – the latest arrival at Tacugama who was handed in voluntarily last week after her owners visited us for a tour. Many Sierra...
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Little Morlai finds a new home at Tacugama
Morlai is our newest arrival Just as we were remarking that our quarantine section for new arrivals was empty for the first time in years, a baby chimp shows up on the doorstep of our director Bala’s...
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New baby chimp Mike arrives from palm oil plantation
Michael (or Mike as he is more commonly referred to) was brought to us by employees from a palm oil plantation after his mother had been hunted for bushmeat. This is illegal in Sierra Leone, but still...
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