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Chimpanzees Need Your Help!

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Chimpanzees Need Your Help!

Chimps in the wild are on the brink of extinction. At the turn of the last century, chimpanzees living across West and Central Africa numbered around one million. Today there are as few as 200,000 chimpanzees left in the wild.

There are many reasons why chimps are disappearing. Their habitat is vanishing at an alarming rate due to deforestation caused by logging companies. Additionally, the commercial bushmeat trade in Africa has led to an increase in the poaching of chimpanzees and other primates. A crisis with far-reaching implications, this trade involves the slaughter of adult chimps, on a commercial scale, for human consumption. The commercial bushmeat trade doesn’t end in Africa—it finds its ways to the tables in cities around the world, including the United States. And, all too often after witnessing the death of their mothers, infant chimpanzees are captured and sold illegally into the pet trade and for entertainment uses.

While working to put an end to the commercial bushmeat trade, the Jane Goodall Institute is ensuring that illegally held infant chimps are confiscated from poachers or market vendors and placed in sanctuaries across the continent. In Tchimpounga Sanctuary, orphan chimps live together in a natural environment in the hands of experienced and loving caregivers. They receive proper nutrition and learn to live in social groups that are necessary to their survival and essential for their development and well-being.

By becoming a Chimpanzee Guardian, you receive the satisfaction of knowing that your contribution will help us to provide housing, food, and medicine for the nearly 200 chimpanzees at Tchimpounga sanctuary. In addition, you will help support African villagers to build sustainable livelihoods that promote regional conservation goals such as reforestation or an end to the illegal bushmeat trade. Please help, become a Chimpanzee Guardian or give a Guardianship to someone you care about.

Read about Vichika and Kauka, two very special chimpanzees who live at Tchimpounga Sanctuary.