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Rescuing Orphaned ChimpsThe Chimpanzee Conservation Centre...
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Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Reportage
Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Reportage
Rescuing Orphaned Chimps
The Chimpanzee Conservation Centre (CCC), in the West African country of Guinea, is a sanctuary and a rehabilitation centre for rescued orphaned chimpanzees. Supported in part by ‘Project Primate, Inc.’, a US non-profit, the CCC currently looks after 50 Western Chimpanzees, one of the most endangered sub-species of chimpanzee. Most of the animals were orphaned and subsequently rescued after being taken as babies in the wild from their family groups. The center rehabilitates and cares for the animals, and ultimately aims to release them back into the wild, a process that take over 10 years.
Getty Images photographer Dan Kitwood recently visited the center and captured touching moments between chimps and their human caregivers. See more photos on Upworthy.
(Photos by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Reportage)
