Urgent appeal
Lwiro Sanctuary, DRC
After three very generous donations from AWARE – Norway and Kristiansand Zoo (U$4000),
Busch Gardens (U$9300 ) and Chester Zoo (U$5000 ), we have been able to achieve the following:
- Completion of the roof of the main building. Over the baby corridor every second panel is transparent, which lets more light in for them.
- The nursery at the sanctuary house is 6 x 5 x 3 and will be able to accommodate very young introduced chimps.
- The house for the mitis, l´hoestis and hamlinis is 3m high and 4 x 4m inside room and 4 x 4m outside room. The walls are of bricks and big strong iron roof. The front and back plus one side of the outside part are also iron. It is the first of five monkey enclosure. It will cost almost 10000 USD for the five cages.
CRSN gave us 30 x 100m of land on both sides of the sanctuary two weeks ago. This has been cleared and here we are building 2 sentinel sheds and one toilet. Other parts of the land will be used for planting fruit trees and forest trees.
Carmen (Co-opera), Hildegunn (AWARE – Norway) and Rachel (volunteer – Australia) are working hard with the local staff to increase the living areas for the chimps and monkeys at the centre.
The current needs are:
- Five monkey enclosures to start the socialization and training of monkeys to be released. Cost for five 3 x 4 x 4 enclosures: U$10 000.
- Chimpanzee day enclosure and night house. Currently 23 chimpanzees reside separately in a small quarantine area. A small 2 hectare forest near the center will be enclosed for daytime residence with a separate holding facility developed for nighttime residence. Estimated cost: Fencing $20,000US, Holding Facility $40,000US
- Food Prep/Storage renovation: $3,000 US
- Quarantine wall: $1000US
- Raceway: $1000US
- Vehicle: $10,000US
- Welding Generator: $5000US
- Medical supply storage: $1000US
- Battery backup system: $6000US
- Laptop computer/printer and scanner: $2000US
- Digital camera: $400US
- Food – U$1000 per month
- Salaries – U$1000
- Veterinary supplies – U$1000 per month
