CERCOPAN

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 31 2009 | By: cercopan

Joy and Melody, who featured in earlier blogs are now finished their obligatory quarantine period and are ready to move into a group as soon as a space becomes available. Since their first weeks at CERCOPAN, they have grown and changed so much.  Joy in particular has become very brave and quite domineering and now spends most of her time play fighting and leaping on Melody’s head!

Joy 

 Joy and Melody also have a new friend “Teddy”, a female Mona brought in just before christmas. Watching them, you would think that they had always been together, although both Melody and Joy seem to constantly compete to gain Teddy’s attention!

 Joy Melody and new friend “Teddy”

Teddy fast asleep on her first day at CERCOPAN

Rhoko Manager Richard with Teddy

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 30 2009 | By: cercopan

CERCOPAN wishes to send a big thank you to Christine C and Wanda H for their donations. Money to feed monkeys is always the hardest to raise, as companies and foundations generally prefer to support stand alone projects. Yet the monkeys at CERCOPAN are the greatest ambassadors for conservation as they attract 30,000 visitors a year to our education centre to receive environmental/conservation education. In Calabar alone we must find around $75 per day just to feed the monkeys, so donations such as yours are so desperatly needed. 

Thanks again

Claire  

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 30 2009 | By: cercopan

Early last week we woke up to fantastic news…..Kemi, the adult female in our pre-release group had given birth! The group are currently living in a newly constructed enclosure awaiting formal consent to release them at our forest site. Clearly this new birth means that the release will need to be delayed a little, but we are not disheartened. The new baby is living proof that the group has successfully bonded and that the adult male and female will be able to successfully reproduce in the wild! We will keep you posted over the coming weeks on the baby’s

progress…

Proud parents Ominaira and Kemi with the new baby

Mother and baby

Baby already making friends

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 28 2009 | By: cercopan

Thanks to Ludovic L for the kind donation, our first this year. With the current wolrd financial crisis it is becoming harder and harder to raise the funds we need to operate each month so your donations could not be more important.

Best Wishes

Claire

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 15 2009 | By: cercopan

From January 2009, CERCOPAN will be offering short-term volunteer working holidays for those who wish to experience what it is really like to work on a conservation project in Africa. Opportunities are available to volunteer at Rhoko camp for either 2 or 4 weeks and the programme will include all training, so no prior experience is necessary. As part of the experience, among other tasks, you may be involved in collecting primate behavioral data, conducting wildlife surveys, radio tracking released monkeys, construction tasks around camp, hands on primate care and habituating wild monkeys. Please see the brochure below for full details….

volunteer-brochure-2009.pdf

Spaces are limited, so we strongly advise booking early to avoid disappointment.

The current available dates are provisional and may be extended to include additional months if demand is sufficient.

This programmew will not affect our original qualified short-term volunteer programme available for those with considerable prior experience/ appropriate qualifications. Please see our website www.cercopan.org for further details.

Both programmes accept international applicants from all countries.

Volunteer Kristine Krynitzki enjoying nature at Rhoko camp

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