On 5th and 9th July a Kenyan television station, Nation TV (NTV), featured a 45-minute segment on its NTV Wild programme that toured Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary on Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Several staff were interviewed along with the PEGAS Project Manager, who explained to viewers the tragic problem of illegal great ape trade. The video of the programme can be viewed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQqLe5CSOs.
Meet the Sweetwaters Chimpanzees
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
PEGAS Steering Committee
Richard Vigne CEO, Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Stephen Ngulu Deputy Manager, Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Daniel Stiles Project Manager, PEGAS
Tom Butynski Director of Research, Sustainability Centre Eastern Africa
Alpana Patel Jane Goodall Institute, Kenya
Yvonne de Jong Eastern Africa Primate Diversity and Conservation Program, Kenya-
Most Recent Posts
- CITES CoP20 in Samarkand approves creation of a Great Apes Enforcement Task Force December 13, 2025
- Exposed: The big business of selling South Africa’s big cats to Ambani’s Indian mega-zoo September 22, 2025
- How DRC’s endangered chimpanzees end up in a billionaire’s Indian zoo April 11, 2025
- Discover What Happened to ‘Ham’ – The First Chimpanzee Launched Into Space March 10, 2025
- Concern: will Congo’s primate sanctuaries be used to “fill” zoos, including abroad? February 27, 2025
- Nigerian link in global gorilla trafficking February 27, 2025
- Can one baby gorilla rescued in Istanbul stop the deadly great ape traffic? December 25, 2024
- Largest Seizure of Monkeys in Africa Welcomed to J.A.C.K. Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo December 30, 2023
- Anatomy of a Sting: Update on rescued Orangutans Nobita and Shizuka December 25, 2023
- Opportunity knocks November 7, 2023
- Baby apes are being stolen for pets—and little is being done to stop it June 3, 2023
- EMPTY FORESTS: How politics, economics and corruption fuel live great ape trafficking April 18, 2023
- Explained: Why three baby chimpanzees were kidnapped from a Congo sanctuary September 27, 2022
- Captured, trafficked and enslaved – what Bua Noi’s liberation could mean October 3, 2020
- Anatomy of a Sting: Postscript November 6, 2019
-
Join 841 other subscribers
