Ngamba Island welcomes another baby

In this case we are allowed to say like mother like daughter because Kyewunyo (Surprise) just like her mother Katie, gave birth to a bouncing baby girl on 17th February at the sanctuary. Kyewunyo is a sub adult female Chimpanzee who conceived while on contraceptives (implant failure).

At the time of birth both the mother and the baby were in good health, although like all new mothers, Kyewunyo didn’t know how to breast feed her baby something which worried the care givers and Veterinarians who decided to bring in a new mother from Kiimi Island (an island neigbouring Ngamba) to help Kyewunyo learn how to feed her baby.

Through behavior imitation, within no time, Kyewunyo was breast feeding her baby.

Early last year we had a surprise birth of a baby boy by Afrika, a juvenile chimpanzee. The circumstances of his birth necessitated that we separate him from his mother for better medical attention as he had a broken arm. Now we are in the process of integrating the two baby chimpanzees into the community within the next months.

Chimpanzees are a very social species, they thrive better in a community other than as loners. It is therefore important that we have the babies join the group into the forest. This is a gradual process because chimpanzees do not easily accept new members into their already established communities. We shall introduce them first to the females with whom they create a bond in order to be protected against any future attacks from high ranking males.

As we plan to build the wall, we also need to make major repairs on facilities that were affected by the strong winds. Make your DONATION today

‘Basic Necessity Survey’ gives a baseline for livelihood improvement

Drawing on decades of work with local and indigenous communities around the world, conservation organizations such as the Chimpanzee Trust believe that being concerned about local people’s well-being is important in contributing to the conservation of wildlife and their habitat.

In February 2016, the Trust continued collecting ‘Basic Necessity Survey’ data, with basic necessity defined as something that all households should have.
The Trust was sub contracted by the Murchison Semliki REDD+ project chief-implementer, WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) to carry out the survey, as a means of providing a baseline for the livelihood projects that are to be implemented among the communities adjacent to forest habitats.

The data was collected in 12 Private Forest Owners Associations at administrative parish level in Hoima district of the Albertine Rift of Uganda. The Chimpanzee Trust and other members of a consortium of conservation agencies dubbed the Northern Albertine Conservation Group (NARCG), including Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), ECOTRUST are working together under the Murchison Semliki REDD+, a sub-national REDD project.