Project Primate, Inc. is a United States 501C (3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of chimpanzees, chiefly through the support and rehabilitation of chimpanzees who have been orphaned or otherwise taken from the wild, and through local public education. Project Primateis working to secure the future of the Chimpanzee Conservation Center (CCC) and rehabilitation sanctuary at an existing site in the National Park du Haut Niger, Guinea, which is currently home to 32 orphaned and confiscated chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). The National Park du Haut Niger occupies 647,000 hectares (including habited buffer zones) between Faranah and Koundara. It protects one of the last remaining dry ecosystems in West Africa. The Park headquarters are in Sidakoro, 45 km from Faranah. The park is opened year-round. Near the center of the park, about 30 km from Sidakoro, is the village of Somoria, neighbor to the Chimpanzee Conservation Center.