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OUR CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS
We join the world to raise awareness and appreciate the people at the front-line in the conservation of wildlife, their habitats and working with local communities. This World Ranger Day we are celebrating our conservation ambassadors. Chimpanzee Trust acknowledges that these persons including the Trust’s Ranger team (our Conservation Ambassadors) in the Northern Albertine Rift […]
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School outreach program
Chimpanzee Trust’s school outreach program is aimed at passing conservation knowledge to the future generation. This has been done through enhancing schools’ participation in conservation education activities at the local, national and international level. The school outreach program is done in three (3) operational areas these are schools neighboring Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, schools in […]
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Radio Drama
Chimpanzee Trust in abid to increase its conservation education mandate is using Radio drama as a tool to spread it’s conservation messages in Uganda. Radio communication is a popular tool of communication in homes because it is an efficient way of delivering information to people rich or poor, literate or illiterate, adult or young both […]
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Community Outreach Program
Chimpanzee Trust gives back to communities around its operations through their community outreach program. This has been done through engaging and facilitating community meetings, awareness sessions and activities around Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary on Lake Victoria and communities living close to wild chimpanzees. The community outreach program aims at empowering community members to address better […]
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Ngamba Island School Visit
Chimpanzee Trust through the Ngamba Island school visit provides an opportunity for young people to share experiences, (through linking up schools, promoting volunteers and internship), skills, values and norms that will improve the conservation of endangered species. Ngamba Island school visit further provide an opportunity for young professionals to acquire experience and participate in fields […]
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NGAMBA ISLAND CHIMPANZEE HEALTH CHECKS 2019
It’s the time of the year when the chimpanzee community at Ngamba Island gets shivers; it’s health check season. Hundreds of vets and volunteers have been trained over the years at Ngamba during the chimpanzee health checks. This year we are happy to be joined by Victoria Albino from the veterinary school of Cornell University […]
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PLANT A TREE – SAVE THE CHIMPANZEE HABITAT
About 40,000 hectares of natural forests are lost every year in Uganda alone, because of deforestation. 60 percent of this is in Chimpanzee Habitat. We encourage those visiting the Island to plant a tree in an effort to support restoration efforts in the Albertine Rift Area. You may also adopt a tree/tress for the conservation […]
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World Chimpanzee Day 14th July 2019
It’s Finally Here!!! World Chimpanzee Day 14th July 2019 The Chimpanzee Trust is set to join the International Community to celebrate World Chimpanzee day in honor of human kinds’ closest living relative as DBE. Dr. Jane Goodall said, “In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? […]
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