We must ensure the future of these youngsters and their families. Working with Wakaluzu, The Colobus Trust, Born Free is trying to protect Colobus monkeys and their habitat as well as other primates and wildlife species in Kenya. The Trust builds and maintains special Colobridges across busy roads and provides a rescue and treatment service for injured primates in November alone more than 10 cases were handled. Born Free has delivered a new project vehicle to the Trust as well as video and photographic equipment. We have also committed to supporting the development of the Trust over the next 2 years.
Apes are popular zoo animals and often have elaborately designed enclosures.
But many of these have been designed to aesthetically please visitors rather than the actual apes and this can have tragic consequences. A new chimpanzee enclosure opened last year at Dublin Zoo and on the very first day, a mother chimpanzee, Annie, with her young son, Angus on her back, tried to crawl under its electric fence. Angus received an electric shock and jumped into the enclosure s lake.