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Colobus Trust

http://colobus.wildlifedirect.org/

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. Staff and volunteers report on the day to day activities in a busy local primate conservation charity

• Added on: Apr 2nd, 2009
• Country: Kenya
• Language: English

• Author: Dipesh Pabari
• Listed in: Endangered Species Volunteering
• Tags: coast conservation wildlife ecotourism welfare primates

Recent Posts

• The passing of Erica

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 05:57 in kenya, volunteer, erica, rehabilitation, primates, progress report, diani, colobus trust, primate rescue rehabilitation

  Some readers may be aware that Erica, the orphaned Sykes monkey who had been living at the Trust since July, died earlier this month. Erica had moved from the main house up to the rehabilitation cages, where we hoped to prepare her for her release...

• In the jungle, the mighty jungle…

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 07:13 in community, kenya, research, volunteering, volunteer, Logging, census, primates, deforestation, poaching, snares, diani

  On Wednesday afternoon staff and volunteers from the Colobus Trust completed a 3-day census of Colobus monkeys in the Gongoni Forest Reserve. WWF had given us a small amount of funding to conduct the census, which would use the Colobus monkey as a...

• Bush Baby Bahati

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 02:17 in kenya, volunteering, volunteer, primates, progress report, diani, colobus trust, bush baby, primate rescue rehabilitation, galago senegalensis

  Dear Readers, We apologise for the lack of updates recently from the Trust! We’ve had a lot going on which we’ll update you all on in the next few days. Regular visitors to our blog will know that we rescued a Bush Baby which we named ...

• Hybrid news…

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 06:48 in kenya, research, volunteer, hybrid, progress report, diani, vervet, sykes, colobus trust

  The Vervet-Sykes hybrid data collection has become rather frustrating recently as he become quite hard to find. When he has been found, the hybrid has still been looking quite battle-scarred! The old injury to his front leg seems to be still hurti...

• The tree nursery grows again…

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 11:59 in kenya, volunteer, reforestation, deforestation, progress report, diani, tree nursery, colobus trust, habitat restoration conservation

  As the rains enter full swing, the staff and volunteers at The Colobus Trust have been working hard to prepare the tree nursery for what is surely one of its busiest seasons. This week, Dougie and John took it upon themselves to start sorting thro...

• Hope comes to the Colobus Trust

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 06:14 in education, community, kenya, volunteer, primates, diani, colobus trust, hope academy, human - primate conflict resolution

  On Wednesday the 28th of October we had a visit from the children of The Hope Academy in Diani.  The main aim of their visit was to educate the pupils about the different primate species found in the Diani Beach area and to highlight the conserva...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Caroline Luley

Thank you for this blog! It provides wonderful insight into the effort to save these wonderful animals. I think these monkeys are marvelous and it's sad that they struggle to survive. I will come back to get updates.

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