Limbe Wildlife Centre

Category: Bush meat, education | Date: May 30 2008 | By: limbewildlifecentre

This week we organised for the fourth time a workshop for hunters. The participants came from two villages, one of them Ndokbangengue. Our loyal readers might remember this name: it is the name of one of our drills that came from the same village. It was very interesting to show little Ndok to the hunters and tell her story. Unfortunately the hunter who had killed her mother was not among the participants, but they all knew who it was.

The Hunters Workshop is organised in cooperation with Ebo Forest Research Project of CRES and sponsored by San Diego Zoo. This time 21 hunters travelled the long distance from Ebo Forest to Limbe and took part in the two days program. The goal of the workshop is to raise awareness about endangered species and discuss alternatives for hunting. It is very interesting to work directly with hunters. They understand our message well and they experience in the forest that the numbers of many species are going down. We discuss with them the possibilities for other ways to make a living and most participants are positive towards change. It is now too early to assess the long-term effects of the workshop, but the immediate result seems to be positive.

And in this last workshop Ndok offered a great tool to talk about the pet trade crisis. She was rescued from a hunter in Ndokbangengue and lucky to be brought to the Limbe Wildlife Centre. She had a broken arm when she arrived, so she had to wear a cast during the first weeks. Then she was introduced to another drill named Tiko, who had recently been brought in from a Catholic mission. Together they have now moved to the drill enclosure, where they are slowly introduced to all the other drills. Ndok still gets her milk twice a day and she looks very healthy.

Simone de Vries

Assitant Project Manager

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