PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE (PASA)
For more information:
www.panafricanprimates.org
www.ngambaisland.org
Across Africa, chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, mandrills, baboons, and other wildlife are under siege due to the expansion of human populations and extractive industries, both of which contribute to the expansion of the commercial trade in wild animal meat. To provide law enforcement with a humane alternative to euthanasia, a number of primate sanctuaries have emerged on an ad hoc basis to cope with the rapid influx of orphans from increased logging, habitat destruction, and those confiscated from poachers who killed their mothers for meat.
The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) is a network of 19 sanctuaries that have come together in a working group committed to providing the best possible facilities and care to captive African primates in Africa, while working towards the protection and conservation of the species in the wild. PASA works to pool resources, coordinate long term projects, and collaborate to counter poaching, logging, and forest encroachment.
The Oakland Zoo has supported the organization of PASA’s annual workshops since it was established in 2000. We also support and raise money for specific sanctuaries and their conservation projects, like the Community Leaders Conservation Workshop (Uganda), Tchmpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary (Pointe Noire, Congo), Ngamba Island Sanctuary (Entebbe, Uganda), Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (Freetrun, Sierra Leone), Limbe Wildlife Centre (Cameroon), and Cameroon Wildlife Aide Fund, Younde Zoo (Cameroon)
For more information:
www.panafricanprimates.org
www.ngambaisland.org
