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The Volcanoes Safaris Partnership Trust works in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to support the threatened chimpanzee population in Kyambura Gorge.
In collaboration with the Uganda Wildlife Authority the partnership significantly reinforces community-led conservation and ecotourism development centred around the Kyambura Gorge landscape.
Kyambura Gorge, on the edge of Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, is a tiny habitat – 11 km long and about 50m wide. The gorge is home to an isolated and threatened group of 33 chimpanzees, cut off from other nearby forests.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers are currently responsible for the chimps in the gorge and for organising daily tourism activities. The chimp population however is not being formally monitored to understand its behaviour, relationships, feeding and for health issues or disease.
To safeguard the Kyambura chimp population for the long term, we aim to create a Chimpanzee monitoring project between VSPT, JGI and UWA. Full time researchers will be employed to conduct this research and monitoring. This study could also assess whether this community can be connected to another chimp habitat.
To safeguard the Kyambura chimpanzees for the long term, VSPT will:
The expansion will also support the Kyambura Lion Monitoring Project as well as new research programs for pangolins and butterflies.
Become a Friend of Kyambura Gorge and your contribution will help support essential research for chimpanzees and other wildlife as well as increase conservation education for both local communities and international visitors.
All donations can be made through Empowers Africa (a 501c3 entity) for US residents and via PayPal for UK and other residents.
• $500 provides school trips to Kyambura Research Center
• $1,000 supports three wildlife and guiding trainees for 3 months
• $2,500 provides the trainees with binoculars, cameras and guidebooks
• $5,000 contributes to salaries of the Chimpanzee Monitoring Project
• $10,000 will go to the building fund and allow the donor to be recognised as a benefactor on a prominently displayed donor wall
Additional naming opportunities available on request.
Write to us on enquiries@volcanoessafaris.com or send us a message via the form on our contact page.
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Write to us on enquiries@volcanoessafaris.com or send us a message via the form on our contact page.
Rwanda: +250 (0) 252 502 452
Uganda: +256 (0) 414 346 464
Tracking chimpanzees in their natural habitat, as they swing from the branches in the canopy high above the forest floor is nothing short of exhilarating. The chimps effortlessly cross and scamper through the trees above the gorge, and visitors on the other hand must cross the river using natural bridges in order to keep up with the chimps. So although the walk usually lasts only 2–3 hours, descending the steep gorge and crossing the log bridges over the river requires some agility and fitness.
Chimpanzee tracking is also available in nearby Kalinzu, a forest reserve 30 minutes drive from Kyambura Gorge Lodge where there is a community of about 40 habituated chimpanzees.
