Asendle Trust

 
To view the trailer of the movie ‘BABOON WOMAN’ featuring Karin Saks to to http://www.firecrackerfilms.com/Broadcast/Projects/BaboonWoman/
A little miracle has been peculating down in Plettenberg Bay and it culminated in the showing of ‘Baboon Woman’, an hour long documentary made by a foreign crew with our own Karin Saks.  It had two showings in the UK on […]

This is Marcell, he is an orphaned, Kinda baboon - presently in the D.R.Congo who desperately needs a
sanctuary/rehab centre to help him. If any of you have any contacts in the Congo who could help,
please contact Kaz at Darwin Primate Group or email margaretroestorf@gmail.com.

 
Sputnik is a teenager herself, but she has adopted Monki and is doing an amazing job of mothering the adopted Sputnik.

Surrogate monkey mother - MONKI -  although only a sub-adult herself is doing a wonderful job nurturing a new infant who joined the Group on 23rd October.
For more…. go to http://darwinprimategroup.blogspot.com/
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTIQwfncSs
 

Tim Ecott joins a conservation project and, armed with a clipboard, counts fish
TWENTY FIVE metres below the sparkling waters of the Indian Ocean the rock pinnacle sticks out from the reef like a talon. Behind me a coral wall stretches north and south as far as the eye can see, and its sheer face plummets […]

It is now May 2008 and we can safely report that Nonnie will make an almost full recovery after the horrific ordeal (see pictures and read the story on Asendle) in which she was beaten to within an inch of her life. Even our vets are amazed at how quickly she has healed and […]

 
 
Chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) and vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops)…
…are two of five species of indigenous primates in South Africa. Although an important part of our natural heritage, they are severely persecuted. Being hunted as pests by farmers, their habitats are shrinking due to the constant expansion of human settlements and the danger of busy […]