Wildlife Conservation Kenya Project #49954

Help Save Primates and their Habitat

by Colobus Conservation

Project Report | Mar 28, 2022
March Report 2022

By Angela Kinyanjui | Fundraising Manager

Ronn and Tiff

Dear Friend,

We would like to re-affirm to you our commitment to pursue key conservation and animal welfare projects that promote the survival of the Vulnerable Angolan colobus monkey, other primates, and their habitats on the southern coast of Kenya. Thanks to your support, we have been able to roll out our project activities as follows

With the re-opening of schools at the beginning of the year, we sent our staff to deliver invitations to local schools to attend our conservation education workshop. We have managed to have 4 workshops involving around 160 pupils this first quarter. Schools are currently closed for the holidays and we hope to resume our education program once school starts again.

We have responded to welfare cases such as injuries from road traffic accidents, electrocutions, natural fighting, human abuse, and dog attacks, and in addition to responding to primate emergencies, we have also rescued other wildlife such as the African wood owl, hedgehog, and duiker. Our top rescue story that we would love to share is that of two young Sykes monkey orphans that were are caring for. The female orphan, now called "Tiff", was found clinging to her mother's body after she was killed by a snare, desperately calling out with no other monkeys in sight. Around the same time, we received a call about an abandoned male Sykes orphan in need of our help, now called "Ronn".After several unsuccessful attempts to reunite Ronn with the nearby Sykes troop, we realized that he would need to stay with us until he is large enough to survive without his mother. The names Ronn and Tiff come after two dedicated volunteers helping to provide the round-the-clock care that these little ones require. Despite their very small size, a lot of work goes into making sure they are healthy and developing all the necessary skills to survive once they are released back into the wild. They always have a trained caregiver nearby that must closely watch their progress and their personalities! Their favorite foods are currently bananas and watermelon, and they have begun the process of weaning have been introduced to new foods like carrots and green beans.

We also identified two new hotspots for road traffic accidents involving primates and decided to place two new aerial canopy bridges as a mitigation. The two bridges have been built and erected, adding to 30 colobriges installed on the Diani beach road. All the bridges continue to be maintained on a weekly, basis and checked to make sure that they do not have damage, rust and that the support poles are steady. This guarantees the safety of the public and to the primates using the bridge.

Thank you for your continued support!

Education workshop with local primary school

Colobridge maintenance

Links:

2022 Q2- Primate Welfare Hot Topics! Interview by ASP

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Nov 29, 2021
End of Year Report

By Angela Kinyanjui | Fundraising Manager

Education workshop with local primary school

Dear Friend,

We hope you and your family are all doing well. This year although a difficult one, we have been fortunate to be able to continue with a number of our project activities and we would love to share with you some of our most notable milestones:

We have been able to deliver quality rescue and respond to 100 different primate emergencies such as vehicle-primate collisions, primate electrocutions, monkeys kept as pets, rescue orphan/abandoned infants, and victims of abuse.
Conducted our Annual Primate census with the help of the staff team and local volunteers. The population trends enable us to assess how effective our mitigations are and are important for wildlife management.
We have been able to continue providing food, water, enrichment, and medical care to 16 primates currently undergoing rehabilitation at our center. The infants have been moved from the nursery cage and have been fully integrated with the big troop in the main rehab enclosure.
We are happy to have been able to conduct our education workshops with local primary schools. We managed to have 400 pupils from 14 local schools. In addition, they were each gifted with a tree plant and nurture in school throughout their school lifetime
We were awarded 1st place in the Netfund Green Innovations Award in the category of Environmental education and awareness for our outstanding efforts.
We have created a new emergency appeal for our center on GlobalGiving, where we are fundraising for emergency funds, we invite you to support our new project on GlobalGiving Page: https://goto.gg/54418

Thank you for your continuous support,

Rescued Sykes monkey receiving medical care

Award for Education

Colobus juvenile in rehabilitation

Conducting Annual Primate census

Animal welfare staff on a rescue

Links:

website

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Aug 3, 2021
July Report 2021

By Angela Kinyanjui | Fundraising Manager

When Mzungu arrived at the center

Thanks to you...

This year so far was nothing like we expected, but our work of helping primates in need has continued all thanks to you. Your support has allowed our dedicated staff team to continue providing rescue and quality medical care for injured primates while providing food and care for orphaned primates in rehabilitation. We would like to share a unique case of our recent rescue, Mzungu.

Mzungu was found abandoned, crying out loud for his mother in an apartment complex within the area. The kind people who rescued him waited to see if the mother would reappear, but unfortunately, there was no sign of a mother searching for her child.

This infant vervet is one of its kind as he exhibited signs of lacking pigmentation something Colobus Conservation has never come across to date. We are yet to conduct a gene test to prove whether this unique vervet monkey is albino or leucistic. At first, we had concerns about how he would survive and whether he needed special care due to his differences as there is limited information on such cases recorded.

Mzungu is feeding like other monkeys and exhibited the same natural behaviors but he was still traumatized from being separated from his mother. We introduced him to other rescued orphaned infants Ndege and Rio and they have created a strong bond with each other.

Now he has fully developed from a few days old infant that needed constant care from a human caregiver to joyful interactions with other monkeys in the nursery cage where he permanently lives. He has greatly improved on his jumping, gripping, and climbing skills and learned how to forage on wild foods. The more he develops the more he proves to be the same as all the other vervets. The other monkeys seem oblivious to his difference in color and interact with him the same as the other members of the troop.

You have saved Mzungu and given him a second chance at life. He and other rescued animals are receiving the best care they need, even as the pandemic persists. Thank you for your compassion towards monkeys enabling us to help him and other orphaned primates in Diani.

Mzungu playing with infant vervet Rio

Mzungu integrated in the nursey cage

Mzungu being protected by another vervet monkey

Links:

http://www.colobusconservation.org

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