![]() ![]() Over the years, Monkey Island has become a local legend, though some news articles have painted the inhabitants as infectious threats. He was promoted four years later to medical technician. But nothing about Liberiaâs Monkey Island is normal. Taylor’s soldiers, he said, stole the lab’s cars. Tour Liberia is Liberia's first centralized tourist website that allows travelers to book Hotels,Guest Houses,Car Rentals and Tourist Sites. ![]() Because of its large population of ⦠On Sunday, we made an amazing visit to a place called âMonkey Island.â. âThey will eat you raw!â one villager warned when a journalist asked to be taken to see the apes on their island home. ![]() To some, the apes even have a monster-like reputation and have sparked bizarre rumours they will attack and even EAT those who set foot on the land. Monkey Island is actually a series of small islands located at the confluence of three rivers in Liberiaâs Montserrado County. These makeshift sanctuaries on the Atlantic coast became collectively known as Monkey Island. ![]() He dreamed of becoming a professional athlete until he met a researcher from the New York Blood Center. Along the dirt road, you pass the Liberian ⦠The public should stay away from animals that might get spooked and attack, he said. Thomas, 60, met the chimp, 36, when she was a baby who pressed the soft black pads of her fingers into his open palm. Like a secret password, the call unlocked a ⦠And theyâre solely dependent on the care of one incredible man who has been feeding them for the past 40 years. Then the man in a blue life jacket cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted, Hoo hoo! Their originals carers, many of whom have worked with the chimps since the 1970s, were paid to take them food and water every other day. “Very cute accidents,” Humane Society chief executive Kitty Block said. Such acute food shortage, he believes would make the chimps vulnerable because some may leave the sanctuary in search for food and be harmed by poachers.ÂWe were taken back by the relationship between the man caring for them and the chimps and silenced by the very human interactions the chimps were making. Chimps (bamboo) in Monkey Island, Marshall begging for food Ī conservationist who prefers not to be named told Liberia Public Radio that the food shortages for the chimps are worrisome the animals need food and better health to survive. The chimps are supposed to be fed daily with pumpkins, plantains, pawpaw, rice, sugar cane and pears that come from nearby farms. Several domesticated chimpanzees on the island were once used for US medical testing sponsored by the New York Blood Center in the 1980s.Īccording to a report published by the BBC in 2015, the animals are those left from 108 chimps used for biomedical research in Liberia some of which led to the discovery of HIV/AIDs in the country but the group said their research activities ended in 2007. We are appealing to NPHIL maybe their busy but we are going to get to them”, he explains. “We need access pass so we can move around to find food for the Chimpanzees on the Island. Darbo stated that several attempts made by him to the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) for Access pass to enable them feed the chimps have not been materialized. He is at the same time appealing to the national government to give his organization access pass to enable them find food for the Chimpanzees.Īccording to him Chimpanzees at the Island in Marshall are very significant to the Liberian society because they were once being used to for vaccine trials. People use to bring food to us to buy for the chimps but now they are afraid because of COVIS-19”, said Mr.Darbo. “We are finding it difficult to find food for the chimps because many are not going on the farm. Several chimps at the sanctuary in Marshall have been fed on locally produced food from near farms and villages in Margibi as well as food from supermarkets.īut the head of Humane Society International in Liberia, Morris Darbo told a local media on Monday Apthat as a result of the restriction on people movement caused by the spread of COVID-19, many farmers can no longer go on their farm and his organization is finding difficult to feed the chimps. As the novel coronavirus continues to heighten in Liberia, the authority at the Humane Society international says the organization is finding it difficult to cater to Chimpanzees (Bamboos) at Monkey Island in Marshall lower Margibi County. ![]()
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