Jane Goodall: Orphan Chimps In Crisis

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Subj: Jane Goodall: Orphan chimpanzees in crisis! Jane needs your help!  
Date: 6/11/2003 11:36:56 PM Eastern Standard Time 
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From: Jane Goodall 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: Orphan chimpanzees in crisis! Jane needs your help!


Topics: Jane Goodall JGI Worldwide Chimpanzees Roots & Shoots Africa Programs 
Elsewhere in News  

  
Infants often arrive malnourished and sickly . . .  

. . . . but can regain their health under the attentive care of Tchimpounga 
staff members.

Photos: Shirley Glyn 

Feeding time at the sanctuary
Photo: Koen Margodt 

Dear JGI Friend,

We urgently need your help. 

In the Republic of Congo, where the Jane Goodall Institute cares for orphan 
chimpanzees who’ve lost their mothers forever to poachers, we are facing a 
crisis. Every few weeks, it seems, the Congo authorities hand over another 
chimpanzee to our caretakers at the sanctuary. Usually these poor infant chimps are 
malnourished, injured, or sick – sometimes they’re so gaunt their ribs 
protrude or they’ve lost their hair. Always, they are traumatized.

They can regain their health at the sanctuary, but it has a limited holding 
capacity. With each new arrival, we come closer to the day when we’ll have to 
turn away a frightened young chimp. And then we will have to turn away another, 
and then another.

These orphans cannot survive in the wild – imagine leaving a two-year-old 
human child alone in a big city and expecting it to survive.

Since 1992 the Tchimpounga Sanctuary has been a refuge for these victims of 
the illegal, commercial bushmeat trade. The chimps at Tchimpounga sleep in 
spacious enclosures and have large areas of secured forest and grasslands to roam 
by day. As they explore the natural habitat together, they develop the social 
skills necessary for their well-being.

Unfortunately, the sanctuary is designed to house 80 chimpanzees. Today, it 
houses 115. In fact, the sanctuary has seen a 20 percent increase in its 
population just in the last year.

To avoid compromising our quality of care, we desperately need to expand 
Tchimpounga’s facilities. We must build another infant dormitory and erect new 
solar-powered fencing to enlarge the forest enclosure. For these projects, we’re 
seeking your financial help. We hope to raise $125,000 in the coming weeks. 
Every gift, even small ones, will help us reach this goal.

I want to share one more point with you about Tchimpounga. Even as we operate 
a sanctuary, we’re working to end the violent, illegal trade that makes it 
necessary. In the communities outside the sanctuary, we conduct awareness 
campaigns about the problems of eating primates (which include disease 
transmission), and about the importance of conservation and biodiversity to all of us. We 
also are implementing JGI’s “community-centered conservation” approach – 
based on our TACARE program in Tanzania, which is funded by the European Union and 
is in its ninth year. This approach means we’ll be helping to develop 
sustainable livelihoods in the villages, while providing services in education and 
health care.

I hope you will help us with our immediate needs at Tchimpounga. (Please 
click here to support our work.) Your assistance will make such a difference for 
these young chimpanzees across all those miles, these amazing creatures who had 
such a tragic start to their lives.

I hope you find it in your heart to help.

Thank you for being a part of JGI’s global community of concerned 
individuals.

Sincerely,



Jane Goodall


If you'd like to help, please go to:

https://commerce.realimpact.net/goodall/tchimpounga.html




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