Tacugama

Category: Chimpanzee, Gaura, Tacugama | Date: Dec 22 2008 | By: tacugama

Gaura and Tombo have an important seasonal message for everyone…

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They’d also like you to know that if you’re stuck for a Christmas gift then there’s no need to panic. You can now visit our new pages on Wildlife Direct and adopt one of the Tacugama chimpanzees for your family and friends. We will do our best to email electronic copies of the adoption certificate and biography by return so that you have time to print them for Christmas Day while the rest of the adoption pack follows in the post.

Many thanks to Yvonne, Lucia, Christine, Mark and Maciej for their recent generous donations - Gaura and Tombo promise that these will be shared with all of the 92 chimps we now have at Tacugama.

From all of us at the sanctuary - as we complete our first full year of blogging - thank you for your continuing interest and support and we wish you a peaceful and happy holiday season.

Tags: Chimpanzee, Sierra Leone, Tacugama, wildlife

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Category: Chimpanzee, Quarantine, Tacugama | Date: Dec 16 2008 | By: tacugama

Sadly we have to report the arrival of another very young chimpanzee at Tacugama - Jessica was brought to us late last week by the Gola Forest project to whom she was handed by her keeper in a sack. They quickly made life more comfortable for her before bringing her to the sanctuary.

Jessica on arrival at Tacugama
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As you can imagine she was very confused and distressed. We estimate that she’s about 14 months old and that she was only very recently separated from her mother - she’s very wary of humans and, from her quarantine den, calls all the time to the other chimps at the sanctuary. She’s fortunately in reasonable health and gradually learning to trust Mama Posseh as she tries to replace the love and care that her natural mother would have given to Jessica. Continue Reading »

Tags: Chimpanzee, Sierra Leone, Tacugama, wildlife

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Category: Introduction, Tacugama | Date: Dec 05 2008 | By: tacugama

What a great few days we’ve had here! We’ve finally been able to introduce Urgent and Salva to a whole new way of life much closer to what Mother Nature intended for them.

After such a terrible first 15 years Urgent is now out in one of our forested enclosures and able to climb trees, for probably the first time in her life. You may remember that she came to Tacugama in July this year having spent at least the last 8-10 years tied to a tree by a short chain. As far as we understand she has been captive almost all of her life. Last Saturday saw her finally meet Gorilla and Jetti face to face and then they took her on a guided tour of their forested enclosure. She hasn’t looked back and we were thrilled yesterday to finally see her at the top of a tree watching the world go by with Jetti at her side.

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Tags: Chimpanzee, Sierra Leone, Tacugama, wildlife

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