Since 1969, the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project have been working to give orphaned chimpanzees the opportunity to grow up free and independent in their natural environment, rather than leaving them to their all too frequent fates as sad captives in a human world, or worse, as substitute humans in a laboratory.

The Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust is now the longest running chimpanzee rehabilitation project in Africa. They protect and monitor a total population of sixty-three chimpanzees occupying three islands in the River Gambia National Park. Many of these chimps were born on the islands, the sons and daughters of the distressed orphans nurtured back to health and rehabilitated there over twenty years ago. T

hree infants born recently are third generation - grandchildren of whom they are extremely proud. The fact that these chimpanzees are able to competently bear and mother their own offspring means they have succeeded in saving not just the individuals brought to us but the many generations that will follow.

In 2000 the project was registered as a UK charity (No.1081151) under the name of the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust. Managing the project and protecting the islands is an ongoing task, one to which there is no foreseeable end, for they will need to protect the chimps for as long as humans continue to pose a threat to them. This costs money, which they have to constantly generate. If you would also like to contribute to the protection and well being of these chimps, then you can, by simply adopting one of them.