Cercopan

After almost a month of worry and sleepless nights, we finally raised the $3333 needed to pay our rent on 1st September!!!! Thanks to Wildlife Direct readers, our monkeys have a safe and secure home for another year. 
A huge thank you to all  Wildlife Direct readers who have given their support either via donations or [...]

by Sam Trull 
Good news from CERCOPAN…after a period of prolonger recovery, Akai, an adult male putty-nosed monkey returned to his group for the first time in almost a year yesterday!  The problem started when the females of his group decided to join together to form a coalition against Akai. This led to his becoming very [...]

by Sam Trull
One of our most playful, fun-loving, and kind-hearted monkeys died last night.  Regiy was a three year-old putty-nosed monkey living in a group with 4 others.  He was often seen playing with his best friend in the group, Cross, taking turns jumping on each other or swinging on a rope.  One of my [...]

Exactly a week ago, CERCOPAN staff rescued an as yet un-named infant putty nosed monkey female (see previous blog) with a seriously injured left hand.  In only a week, this young monkey has transformed from a traumatized little girl, into a confident and adventurous individual!  Not wanting to encourage too much movement of her hand [...]

Fantasic news…thanks to our wonderful readers out there, we only have $1182 left to raise towards our rent!!! Recent donations from Kathy S, Kevin C, James M, Brenton H, Mark H, Ji-in L, Harry V, James M, Julie T, Jennifer S, Wanda H and Christine C have brought us so close to our target and there are [...]

Over the past three months CERCOPAN has rescued two female orphaned putty nosed monkeys.  First Maya (see previous posts) and then Angel and now we have a third infant female putty nosed monkey!  On Saturday, the baby’s ‘owners’ came to CERCOPAN to let us know that not only did they have a monkey, but that [...]

I am sorry that once again I am the bearer of bad news, but I wanted to let you know that late lastnight we lost Eve the otter after her health suddenly plummented yesterday afternoon. Everyone here is devastated, but at least we know we did our absolute best to help this little one. I [...]

Apologies to all of you for not giving an update on our situation for a few days….I know many of you are following our struggle to raise funds and are almost as worried as me about it! Sadly I haven’t been able to spend much time at my computer as I’ve been pretty unwell so [...]

Hi, I’m Carrie and I am just coming to the end of a six week stay as a short term volunteer at CERCOPAN. I am currently working on my PhD at the University of Florida focusing on Environmental Education and Primate Conservation and hope to come back for a much longer period next year as [...]

I have just had a visit from one of our volunteers from the bush site and wanted to share with you the good news! The neglected bush dog rescued by CERCOPAN is finally starting to thrive and behave like a normal healthy puppy. Upon arrival she was unable to walk or go to the toilet [...]