http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:28:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With ‘only’ around fifty African grey parrots remaining from the confiscations of November 2007, we thought that we were almost through with our parrot adventure. But the government of Cameroon takes the parrot trade seriously and last week another 39 parrots were seized from trappers in Mundemba and brought to ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/28/more-african-grey-parrots-psittacus-erithacus/ The most common monkey in the Mount Cameroon area is the mona monkey. Of all the guenons it is the most adaptable species, so even in degradated forests and close to humans it still survives. This makes them vulnerable for hunting, because they are more visible then the species that ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/27/mona-monkeys-cercophithecus-mona-out-of-quarantine/  The famous western lowland gorillas, known as the ‘Taiping gorillas’, who were returned to Cameroon from South Africa a year ago continue to keep everyone at the Limbe Wildlife Centre extremely busy.   The integration with the resident gorillas at the LWC did not go as well as was hoped and ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/24/the-%e2%80%98taiping%e2%80%99-gorillas-move-in-to-their-new-enclosure-limbe-wildlife-centre-felix-lankester/ Yesterday LWC presented the book ‘Gorilla Stories’, which is going to be used in conservation education in all the schools in and around Limbe. The Cross river gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli), that lives in the South West Province of Cameroon, is critically endangered, with only around 250 gorillas left in ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/15/gorilla-stories/ The Preuss’s monkey is an endangered species with a very small ranch: Western Cameroon, Eastern Nigeria and Bioko. The Mount Cameroon Area is an important area for this species, but as everywhere they are threatened by illegal hunting. Bobendina, a three weeks old baby Preuss’s monkey, was brought to my ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/11/a-new-friend-for-our-baby-preusss-monkey-cercopithecus-preussi/ The aftermath of the seizure of 1227 African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) from Douala Airport, Cameroon, back in December 2007 is still consuming much of our time and resources.  Despite having released over 900 parrots back into the wild, we still have approximately 100 birds left.  Back in February 2008, ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/06/african-grey-parrot-psittacus-erithacus-seizure-in-cameroon-update-felix-lankester/ I just returned from a four weeks leave in the Netherlands and it feels good to be back at the Limbe Wildlife Centre, Cameroon. A lot of things have happened while I was away, like the integration of four infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). It is great to see that the ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/29/infant-chimpanzees/ The Limbe Wildlife Centre, Cameroon, focuses predominantly on the rescue and rehabilitation of endangered primate species, like western lowland gorillas and the drill monkey.  However we also often rescue non-primate species, like reptiles and birds and other small mammal species.  Many of these species tend to be solitary animals whose behaviour ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/09/30/the-witch-bird/ Running a sanctuary is hard work and it is not always easy to make time to write about it. We have had some sick animals in the last months, which is normal in the rainy season, but it seems that we have had the worst now. Because of the relative ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/09/17/gahs-progress/ Last Thursday I was called by a man in Bafoussam, who said he had a baby chimpanzee that he would like to donate to the Limbe Wildlife Centre. He had tried to find a good place for it for more then a month, but it was not until he emailed ... http://limbewildlifecentre.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/05/mbam/