Primate News
Virginia McKenna Award
17 June 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Primates Campaign News
Slow Loris Champion Wins 2nd Virginia McKenna Award for Compassionate Conservation
Pole Pole Foundation receives much deserved recognition
3 May 2013
Categories: Primates Campaign News
On the western flank of the Albertine Rift, Mount Kahuzi stands tall and clear above the low clouds in the bright morning sun. This mountain and the surrounding World Heritage Site of Kahuzi-Biega National Park is one of the most...
Rescued baboon safe and well
24 April 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Primates Campaign News, Ensessakotteh News
Meet our latest rescued animal. Koti is a young female baboon who was discovered tied to a fence in Kotebe in the eastern suburbs of Addis Ababa. Born Free’s partners at the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA)...
Monkey Rescues at Limbe Sanctuary
30 March 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Primates Campaign News, Rescue News
Over the last month, we have had four new primate arrivals at Limbe Wildlife Centre. Read their stories here.
Stolen Apes
5 March 2013
Categories: Primates Campaign News, CITES News, Homepage News
Ian Redmond presents the first report on the scale of the illegal trade in great apes to CITES delegates gathered in Bangkok yesterday
This report, produced by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) through GRASP and coedited and...
Mireille the Bonobo
17 February 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Primates Campaign News, Rescue News
Ian Redmond OBE reports on the dramatic rescue of a young bonobo (new video)
Three ivory dealers arrested in Cameroon
14 February 2013
Categories: Homepage News, Elephants Campaign News, CITES News, Primates Campaign News
A report has just come in from Ofir Drori, Director of the Cameroon-based Last Great Ape Organization (LAGA), an organization Born Free has been supporting since its creation 10 years ago. LAGA was specifically established to...
Freedom beckons...
1 February 2013
Categories: Lilongwe news, Primates Campaign News, Homepage News
Early this year, the team at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, undertook a programme to release some of their rescued baboons back to the wild. All these animals have been rescued as individuals in Malawi; some found for sale...
Home for New Year…
21 December 2012
Categories: Homepage News, Primates Campaign News, Lilongwe news
The New Year is set to offer a very special opportunity to 31 rescued baboons as the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in Malawi undertakes the final stages of their rehabilitation programme.
Mountain Gorilla numbers climb higher
10 December 2012
Categories: Homepage News, Primates Campaign News
The results of a census carried out earlier this year in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda confirm that mountain gorilla numbers have increased by about 10% in the last 2 years from 786 to a present day 880.
Mountain...
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