The Limbe Wildlife Centre is situated in the small fishing town of Limbe at the foot of Mount Cameroon. The Mount Cameroon ecosystem boasts the second highest levels of biodiversity in Africa and is home to many locally endemic and critically endangered primates such as the vellerosus chimpanzee, the Preuss's guenon and the drill. However currently this ecosystem has no legal protected status and suffers from illegal logging and high levels of poaching for the bush meat trade. Linked with the bush meat trade is the illegal pet trade, whereby the infant chimpanzees, gorillas and other primate species that are too small to have a value as a meat source are sold as pets.

The LWC's very existence has evolved from these illegal trades. The LWC takes care of infant primates that are lucky enough to be seized. LWC is open for visitors, providing one of the few opportunities for local people to see and learn about these special animals and the critical conservation issues that are affecting them. It therefore plays a very important role in educating people about how they can help save their precious wildlife. In addition, the project executes a variety of education programs onsite and out of the centre.