Limbe Wildlife Centre

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 24 2009 | By: limbewildlifecentre

 The Limbe Wildlife Centre runs a volunteer program whereby we invite people to come and gain a unique experience working hands on with endangered primates, and in return they are asked to pay a donation. All of the funds raised in this program go directly to pay for animal food and medicine.

One of our volunteers at the moment is Monique Thybo Djarn from Danmark. She wrote an impression about the Miniworkshop about Climate Change last month:

“The 24th of January the LWC held a workshop about global warming. The LWC is not only a sanctuary for injured and orphaned animals, it is just as much an education centre that aims to teach people about conservation and how to live their life without being a damage towards nature.
At first there was an introduction of the various speakers, and afterwards Glenn, one of the teachers from the LWC, shortly described what global warming is, and how the workshop was going to take form.
We started seeing part of a documentary called The Inconvenient Truth made by Al Gore. The documentary describes what global warming is, what is causing it, and what consequences it may have. Every now and then the documentary was stopped and the head speaker, a Canadian woman named Jane Boles, would explain it in an easier language, answer questions and afterwards ask some questions both about the documentary, but also to test the basic knowledge that the visitors had about global warming.
Before lunch the participants had a guided tour around the centre. Many still think that the LWC is a zoo, but by taking them around the centre and explaining to them that the animals are here because of the bush meat and pet trade, we not only make them aware of the work that is done here, but hopefully we also make them think about what their behavior can cause nature and the animals in it.

After lunch Jane Boles gave a perfect introduction to the possibilities of Carbon Credits for conservation in Cameroon. The idea is that money will be donated to initiatives that avoid logging of the tropical rainforest and instead promote a sensible management of these valuable habitats. This new instrument can secure large amounts of CO2 locked in the biomass and at the same time save important ecosystems from destruction.
We saw the last bit of The Inconvenient Truth, and ended the workshop with a debate of what can be done to prevent, or stop global warming. Almost all of the visitors took part in the debate with both questions and suggestions, which we at the LWC see as a positive reaction to the workshop.”