Limbe Wildlife Centre

Category: Anne Sofie Meilvang, education | Date: Apr 27 2009 | By: limbewildlifecentre

Every month we try to make a “field trip” with the Nature Club members, which is always exciting for the children.

On Saturday the 25^th of April our nature club members went to Down Beach in Limbe to do beach cleaning. The beach cleaning is a yearly event, which in addition to cleaning the beach, also gives us a good opportunity to discuss garbage and its impact on nature with the children. The week before this event we discussed this subject in class to prepare and encourage the children.

This year more than 30 motivated Nature Club children showed up to help with the beach cleaning. In addition, 20 teenagers from a church group joined our efforts, so we had a big group. We divided the children into small groups, each with a wheelbarrow and rakes, and then worked our way from one end of the beach to the other. The children collected a big pile of rubbish, and even though the beach may look dirty again today, I believe that they learned a lot from the cleaning, and that it also made a good impression on all the people who watched us clean the beach.

Best wishes,

Sofie

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Category: Anne Sofie Meilvang, Felix Lankester, Simone de Vries | Date: Apr 19 2009 | By: limbewildlifecentre

It’s been a while since the last blog, but that doesn’t mean that nothing has happened at the Limbe Wildlife Centre. On the contrary, it has been a very busy month. Last week we had to say goodbye to Felix Lankester, who has been the manager for 5 years. His presence will be missed, but the results of his work will benefit the LWC for many years to come: a great veterinary team in a well equipped vet room / laboratory, an incredible chimpanzee enclosure, a properly trained and well organised staff, etc. But although the LWC has grown in many ways in the last years, there is still a lot of work to be done.

I am honoured to have taken over the manager’s position from Felix and I am looking forward to work on the further developments that are necessary to live up to the high standards we have set for ourselves. I would like to introduce to you the new assistant project manager: Anne Sofie Meilvang. Sofie comes from Danmark and is a biologist with experience in conservation education. I am looking forward to working with her and hope she will have just as much fun in her job as I have had in the past years. Together we will work on the further integration of our chimpanzees in the new Born Free chimpanzee enclosure, the building of a guenon enclosure, the expansion of our education program and all the other plans we have. We will keep you informed on this blog.

Simone de Vries

Project Manager

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