Help us to restore our camps to keep Africans working for conservation
Fundraising campaign by
juan lapuente
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€680.00raised of €2,000.00 goal goal
No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities
Floods have destroyed one of our field camps, we need your help to restore it and keep working with Africans to protect Comoé chimpanzees!
We have been hiring natives for the last four years to work in conservation of chimpanzees in Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast. Every year, the work in the rainy season is hard, but this year it has been especially terrible and floods bigger than anybody can remember in the area have passed through our field camps, destroying completely one of them.
The photos are from last year's floods, since this year they were so bad that I made all the workers come out of the park to avoid risks. When they came back, they found that several tents were lost or damaged and most of the camp equipment in our northern camp was taken away by the water of the river.
We want to keep working to involve Africans in conservation and to protect the critically endangered chimpanzees of Comoé. If you decide to help us, your money will go to pay the tents where our native assistants sleep, the pots where they cook, buckets, matts, tarps, cuttlery and two gps that were damaged. Thanks a lot for your support!
If you want to know more about our project, visit us here:
Organizer
- juan lapuente
- Kakpin, CI
I've been working in chimpanzee field research and wildlife conservation since I finished my Msc in ecosystems biology. Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Came
I've been working in chimpanzee field research and wildlife conservation since I finished my Msc in ecosystems biology. Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Came
Donors
- Julien Lamarche
- Donated on Dec 18, 2018
- juan lapuente
- Posted On Dec 04, 2018
Thank you so much Anja and Evelyn for your important contribution! It helps a lot! with such contributions, we will repare our camps quite soon
THE CAMPAIGN IS UP AND RUNNING!
Update posted by juan lapuente at 06:00 pmWe got our first donations! Seven people have already decided to support us, thank you so much to all!It is very encouraging to see that people care about Comoé chimpanzees and our team. That will keep us working even harder!
Donors & Comments
- Anonymous
- Donated on Dec 19, 2018
Pierre Rabhi : One day, says the legend, there was a huge forest fire. All terrified animals, aghast, watched the disaster; helplessly. Only the little hummingbird was busy, fetching a few drops with its beak to throw them on the fire. After a moment, the armadillo, annoyed by this ridiculous agitation, said to him: "Hummingbird, aren't you mad ? it is not with these drops of water that you will extinguish the fire!" And the hummingbird replied, "I know it, but I'm doing my part." ..... thank you for doing your part :)
- Julien Lamarche
- Donated on Dec 18, 2018
- juan lapuente
- Posted On Dec 04, 2018
Thank you so much Anja and Evelyn for your important contribution! It helps a lot! with such contributions, we will repare our camps quite soon
- Anja Landsmann
- Donated on Dec 03, 2018
- Evelyn Ono Vineberg
- Donated on Dec 03, 2018
Hope this helps to restore your camp soon. Best wishes always!
- juan lapuente
- Posted On Dec 02, 2018
Almost there! Thanks a lot Yanni and Jake!
- Jake Brooker
- Donated on Dec 02, 2018
- Yannick Herrmann
- Donated on Dec 01, 2018
- juan lapuente
- Posted On Dec 01, 2018
Thanks a lot Marine and Guillaume! every contribution is extremely important, we are getting closer to our goal
- BANVILLE Guillaume
- Donated on Nov 22, 2018
Pierre Rabhi : One day, says the legend, there was a huge forest fire. All terrified animals, aghast, watched the disaster; helplessly. Only the little hummingbird was busy, fetching a few drops with its beak to throw them on the fire. After a moment, the armadillo, annoyed by this ridiculous agitation, said to him: "Hummingbird, aren't you mad ? it is not with these drops of water that you will extinguish the fire!" And the hummingbird replied, "I know it, but I'm doing my part." ..... thank you for doing your part :)