Creepy Animals of The Forest

I have always had a passion for all wildlife and as a teenager kept many
unusual and exotic insects and spiders in my bedroom, much to my mothers
disgust!  In January 2006 I came to Cameroon to search primarily for birds
of prey, which I work with in the UK .  After spending one month in Limbe, I
decided to move to a new area and after sending several emails to different
organisations, I received a reply from CWAF, offering me the chance to
volunteer at their forest reserve in Mefou, working with their apes and
monkeys.

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New story by Aviad

I am Aviad, an Israeli guy who recently finished his three year service in the military, at that time I decided that I want to accomplish a dream of mine, to go to Africa and so I went. I started in Uganda , ended up in South Africa after seven months. After an amazing six months passed by, I felt ready to go to the place that was the main reason of me coming to Africa, Cameroon

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Nanga's Story

One of our recent volunteers proved to be a conservationist extraordinaire. Dorthe Pedersen from Denmark was coming to the end of her 3-month stay with us as a hard working volunteer. Read more

Yeba

At the end of November 2004 CWAF management received a call regarding the discovery of an infant male gorilla near the Dja Reserve. CWAF decided to send the vet Babila Tafon to obtain a clear picture of the situation. Read more

Nona's Story

On the 16 th of December 2004 Rachel Hogan received a call concerning a two week old female gorilla found in a hunt camp in the east of Cameroon . On the 17 th Rachel left Yaounde early in the morning Read more

Phi and Mimi

Phi is a little Olive Baboon. Whilst Babs and Rachel were having a meeting in the zoo Phi appeared on the steps outside the office. His screaming alerted Rachel Hogan to his plight Read more

Ahmmed, Althea, Yoko, and Mawa

These chimpanzees arrived about the same time late last year and early this year. Being the biggest and finishing her quarantine first Althea was integrated into the chimp nursery group without incident. Read more

I will never forget the evening my husband arrived home sitting in the back of the car with Shemesh held in his arms. I was standing in the entrance of our house waiting, full of anticipation for something that I had been dreaming about since I was a child - a chimpanzee.

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Rachel Hogan arrived in Cameroon on the 1st May 2001, planning to spend three months as a volunteer with cwaf. A 26 year old Birmingham girl with a lifelong fascination with gorillas, she took the unusual step of giving up her career and home before leaving the UK.

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