Sierra Leone intends to remain a sanctuary for chimpanzees. Police are hunting 27 chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and attacked the occupants of a taxi, killing the driver. In February 2020, I visited the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. King Bruno: A chimpanzee’s tale of tragedy and hope By Mike Shanahan, Press officer, International Institute for Environment and Development. Here I share my experience from traveling there independently to photographing the chimpanzees. Bruno the chimpanzee - the 20-year-old alpha male at the Tagucama Chimp Sanctuary on the outskirts of Freetown in Sierra Leone - has been linked to a fatal attack … This is Gary Brown...He survived the attack and allegedly stopped Bruno from doing any … Update: The alpha male in Sierra Leone via BBC . His death was a tragic accident, but it had a root in rainforest politics. Chimpanzees have attacked and killed a Sierra Leonean driver and injured three foreign visitors at a wildlife sanctuary near the town of Tacugama, according to police and … Jane Goodall visited a chimpanzee sanctuary in Sierra Leone on Thursday that has taken on the veteran primatologist’s mission to protect the animals threatened by deforestation, disease and hunting. Issa Kanu died because chimpanzees escaped from a sanctuary in Sierra Leone. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Police hunted Monday for chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and mauled a group of local and American sightseers -- a rare attack … I hope all is well. On February 28, 2019, the government granted the chimpanzee the status of “national animal”. Hey Gang. On 23 April 2006, Issa Kanu died like no man should. Goodall, 84, famous for her ground-breaking study of chimpanzees in East Africa in the 1960s, praised the work of her old friends, Bala Amarasekaran and his […] The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary is home to 98 orphan chimps rescued from human homes as a result of hunting, the by-product of Bushmeat – the pet trade, and the fight for co-existence with humans in limited forest cover with a bulk of their homes lost to massive clearing for human purposes. Thus, as is the case with the kangaroo in Australia and the kiwi in New Zealand, the chimpanzee will now be perceived as the emblem of Sierra Leone. FILE - Philip, right, the dominant chimpanzee at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, sits in an enclosure with other orphaned chimps outside Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, Aug. 14, 2007. How to Travel to the Chimpanzee Sanctuary. Firstly, before you can take a tour, you must get to the Chimpanzee Sanctuary. The violent attack was instigated by Bruno, the first chimpanzee taken in by the sanctuary and … Four other people among the group of …