Archive for the ‘Primate Rescue/Rehabilitation’ Category
My name is Catherine Wangombe Office Administrator and this is my first blog. My major area is accounts and making sure that people are happy and things are running well despite our small income. Do you know we spend a lot of money each month to buy food for the monkeys in rehabilitation and drugs and vet consultation for the injured monkeys. It is very difficult for us to raise the money to enable us to satisfy these demands especially due to high cost of things around Diani. Thankfully we usually manage to afford it due mainly to the support from our volunteer donations. What it costs per month 8000ksh (120us$)………………..Vegetables & Fruit
On the 2nd of February we were called to a private house where a Colobus monkey was acting very strangely. A female Colobus was sitting on the ground underneath the trees where the rest of her troop were sitting. She seemed reluctant to climb anything and as a result had almost been attacked by the guard dogs at the house. We caught her and brought her in over night for observation. Upon examination we could find nothing physically wrong with her she was a little dehydrated and a little under weight but nothing else obviously wrong. The next day we released her back into her troop. We continued observations for a few hours and it seemed she still wouldn’t climb trees to join her troop. From the observations it was thought she may have a problem with her eyes which obviously wasn’t evident in the examination while she was sedated. So we brought her back to the trust and had the vet examine her while awake. She was indeed partially blind and seemed to only see vague moving shapes. The vet felt it could have been caused by a fall from a tree or maybe a minor stroke and that we should keep her under observation for a week. During the course of the week she showed some improvement and certainly became more active and aware of her surroundings. Today we took her back to her troop and re-released her. She immediately ran up a tree and started looking around for her troop, quite encouraging considering how she was when we found her. Monitoring of her condition and reintegration to the troop will be closely monitored by the Colobus Trust and we’ll keep you updated. Stuart - Assistant Manager
Man can never justify his innocence if the current trend is to continue. A week will hardly pass without cases of forest clearing for reasons of construction. Animals are never the beautiful radiances that were in our faces two years ago. The painful feeling that teared me apart with rage was that of a baboon found lying helplessly in a market place without water and food. How can we be so hypocritical to our own nature? We cut down trees in the name of building houses we never complete, no occupants! Monkeys are stranded in front of houses claiming what is rightfully theirs, they have no trees to stride on. What a big shame, why do have to complain about monkeys raiding our homes? You have to act now!! What is happening now where monkeys are constantly putting a brave face into raiding houses for food is just a recipe of what is in store for man. The truth of the matter is that a monkey does not exist except for its habitat we are taking it away for selfish reasons. We should all see the truth, we are all to blame. Do not complain so much. I will celebrate to receive back your selfish agenda on my monkeys - you are also a victim!! Sorry, how do you give water and food to a dead creature you just killed minutes ago?? Don’t pretend, answer me please. STOP AND THINK. By John Abuor, Field Staff member and writer
The female baboon that we picked up yesterday and were treating in our clinic sadly died during the night. We discovered this morning that she had been lying injured in the housing estate for 10 days before anyone contacted us. She was severely dehydrated and starving, as well as injured from being hit. If only we could have got to her earlier.
This morning we were called by the local vet to go and pick up a female baboon from a housing area about 2 km away. She was lying on the ground surrounded by people when we got there. We sedated her using a blow dart and brought her back to the Trust’s vet clinic for examination. She had been hit a number of times with sticks or rocks and was in a very poor state. Perhaps she was trying to steal food from peoples houses or fields. She is very old. We put her on a glucose drip and treated her with antibiotics. She is now stabilized but it is not certain if she will survive the night.
Costings for translocation of Colobus Trust facilities to new site
The plot that the Trust has been based at for the past 9 years is being sold by the landlords and it is very likely that we will have to move to a new site within the next three months. We have found an appropriate new site to rent but need to raise at least 17,530 $US to construct the necessary facilities at this new location. IF WE CAN’T RAISE THE MONEY FOR THE MOVE, THE TRUST IS IN GREAT DANGER OF CLOSING DOWN. CAN YOU HELP? THIS APPEAL IS URGENT If you can donate money, construction supplies, or labour services to help us with our move please email Jophie at jophie@colobustrust.org for more information.Below are the estimated costs of this building work. 2) Vet clinic 3) Quarantine enclosure 4) Visitors car park 5) Visitors and staff toilets 6) Shower room / toilet 7) Additional volunteer accommodation (permanent tent with thatched roof) 9) Office 10) Shop and education centre 11) Furniture 12) Nature trail 13) Paint 14) Additional costs TOTAL COSTS 1,226,370 KSH / 17,520 $US
PLEASE CAN YOU HELP US????? WE URGENTLY NEED FUNDS. The Colobus Trust has been on a plot of Diani Beach for 10 years that is 80% forest. This forest is a habitat for a troop of Colobus monkeys as well as many vervets, sykes, yellow baboons, bush babies, suni antelopes, and many other birds and mammals. It is also the home of our Colobus Trust Cottage which contains our visitors centre, housing for volunteers and an administrative office. The plot also has our rehabilitation cages, our quarantine cages, a veterinary clinic and a nature trail for eco-tours. We have been renting the plot for the past 10 years, and now the owner has put it up for sale and development. There is currently a bid on the plot, however, if we can raise the money to match the price we could possibly purchase it ourselves. If we don’t raise the money to purchase the plot ourselves, we will be forced to move, and all of our hard work we have put into developing the cottage, vet clinic, etc. will be lost! In addition, it will cost us a lot of money to move - money that should be spent on saving the Colobus Monkeys! Please email Jophie at jophie@colobustrust.org if you are able to donate funds to help prevent this tragic crisis! |
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The Colobus Trust was established in Diani Beach, Kenya, in 1997 to save the endangered Angolan colobus monkey which was a frequent victim of roadkills. The Trust's trademark is Colobridges - bridges over the roads for save overpass. Gwili, a Welsh volunteer at the Trust reports on the day to day activities in an busy local primate conservation charity 
