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Thanks for making Sudan rescue possible
Each of our rescue missions involves teams of dedicated individuals without whom nothing would be possible. Each involves a mountain of bureaucracy and paperwork as well as months of prior preparation, such as taking blood samples from the chimps and sending it abroad for testing.
Making our rescue of five chimp babes from the Sudan possible was a large team of individuals who provided invaluable help and to whom we are extremely grateful.
In addition to Sue Knight (see: ‘Life with the Chimps’) and Dr Stephen van der Spuy (see: ‘Volunteer Vet’) we would like to extend heartfelt thanks to the following people who helped us:
Delta Connections (in particular Arvin
Patel) for flying food and medicine from Nairobi to Rumbek, and chimps from Juba to Rumbek
Safari Link for moving food from Nanyuki to Nairobi
Annie Olivecrona, JGI Kenya Board Member, for all her help from the start, for looking after the chimps in Rumbek while Sue Knight was away and for arranging the permits and other details to get them to Chimpanzee Eden.
Alpana Patel of JGI Kenya for finance and arranging that food, milk and any medication that was needed on a week-to-week basis was sent to
Rumbek.
Piet Brink for always being of help: with vaccines, sick chimps, moving chimps from Wau, and for invaluable moral support.
Lynn Lury for always being on hand to help and lend support, and also for supplying dinner to officials of the Southern Sudanese Wildlife Dept in her camp, Safari Styles, in Rumbek when the chimps were leaving.
Dalbit Petroleum Ltd for use of their company house, compound and vehicle, and for supplying food for the chimps initially.
Officials of Southern Sudan Wildlife department:
Abraham Mayek Gum; Abraham Akotch; Victor Wurda
Lotombe, Director General of Environmental Affairs; and
Lt Gen James Loro, Minister of Wildlife GOSS (Government of Southern Sudan) for expediting translocation, as well as
Sebit Joseph Patyi, Director of Wildlife in Wau, and
Capt John Mapel, Rumbek Wildlife, for assisting in moving chimps from Wau to Rumbek
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