Cameroon

    Mvog-Betsi Zoo

Address: Quartier Melen 1.5km W of Centre Ville

Website: www.cwaf.org

Price: Entry around CFA2000, camera CFA500

Hours: 09:00-18:00 daily

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The Mvog-Betsi Zoo is located in Yaoundé, Cameroon and is administered by the Ministry of Forestry and Fauna (MINFOF) (formerly the Ministry of Environments and Forests (MINEF)) in Cameroon. There is a wide range of species at the zoo, including big cats, reptiles, and birds of prey. Ape Action Africa has taken responsibility for the care of the primates at the zoo

Animal

• Agile Mangabey
• Baboon
• De Brazza's Monkey
• Drill
• Grey-cheeked Mangabey
• Mandrill
• Tantalus Monkey
• Patas Monkey
• Putty-Nosed Monkey
• Red-Capped Mangabey

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Ape Conservation in Africa

Wild gorillas and chimpanzees are on the brink of extinction. Habitat loss and poaching threaten these magnifcent animals like never before. 

Ape Action Africa is committed to ape conservation in Africa - protecting Cameroon’s great apes through direct action, including rescuing orphaned gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys, giving them a safe forest sanctuary home where they can live with their own kind.

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CWAF and Ape Action Africa

Many of you will be familiar with our project as the Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund – CWAF. 

CWAF was established in 1996 as a UK charity and its primary objective was to improve living conditions for prrimates housed at Mvog Betsi Zoo in Yaounde, Cameroon. During 12 years of operation, CWAF expanded its mission significantly to provide sanctuary for wild orphans of the illegal bushmeat and pet trades in Cameroon.

CWAF has meant a lot over the years to our dedicated staff and supporters, but we took the decision in 2009 to move forward with a name that reflected our commitment to great ape protection and aligned us more closely with our goals:

Ape...to provide sanctuary for individual, endangered primates orphaned by the illegal bushmeat and pet trades

Action...to actively rescue orphaned primates, providing rehabilitation and long term care in a protected environment.

Africa...to work closely with the Cameroonian people to protect their natural heritage through education and social support.

We are very positive about the future and look forward to the new opportunities we have to increase awareness about the plight of great apes and raise vital funds for our long term work in Cameroon. 

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Cote d'Ivoire

Abidjan Zoo

Zoo d'Abidjan, Route du Zoo, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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Abidjan Zoo is the National Zoo of Cote D’Ivoire formerly known as the Ivory Coast. The Zoo is currently being rehabilitated through a project initiated by the Association Du Calao  www.calao-africa.org,  and facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-du-Calao-asbl/153666978035212. which is a small but very active and proactive Conservation group.  Richard Champion, a zoologist from the UK, is with the help of a great network of experts and volunteers, helping to rebuild the zoo. 

The zoo, animals and staff has been through difficult times due to the civil war in 2011. The zoo has an amazing range of animals, with many of great conservation importance, set in a beautiful environment. The zoo has Forest Elephant, Pygmy Hippo, West African Chimpanzee, Leopard, Hyena, Forest Buffalo, Civet, and genets, Mangebeys, Slender Snout Crocodiles, along with other primates, birds, and reptiles. The zoo is also building one of the best natural elephant enclosures there is, alongside other developments. The zoo is a developing zoo, and all the work is done sustainably and on small budgets, with the main focus to improve the lives of the animals, education of visitors and with a long term conservation purpose.

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Abidjan Zoo, located at the edge of Deux Plateaux - Cocody was first created as a private Zoo in, it is believed 1930, but was given to the State of Cote d'Ivoire in 1972, and opened to the general public in 1973.  At that time the price of entry was 300 F CFA, and remains 300 F CFA to this day.  Whilst the price of entry may not have increased, it is a very sad fact of the recent political/social/military/economic turmoil, starting with the Coup d'Etat of December 1999, through the various, and many, "evenements" that lead up to the "Battle for Abidjan" in April 2011, that the Zoo population has declined from over 500 animals and 53 species, down to 170 animals and 24 species. Unfortunately all the carnivores died of starvation during the battle (with the exception of the Spotted Hyenas), because the meat supplied from the Vridi Abattoir, some 10 kilometres away, could not be brought to the Zoo.

 However, a new lease of life has been given to the Zoo, thanks to the efforts of a large group of national and international volunteers, guided by a Luxembourg based NGO Association du Calao (find it in Facebook), and aided financially by the Swiss and Ivoirian governments.  A new lion enclosure is to be built, and the chimpanzee quarters improved.

 The Zoo is looking clean, the animals are looking well fed, and well looked after.  There is a spectacular collection of a rare West African Crocodile, the mecistops cataphractus more commonly known as the Slender Snouted Crocodile.  There is a female Forest Elephant, named CAN, born the day that the Ivoirian National Football Team (aka "The Elephants") beat the favourites, Senegal, in Dakar, Senegal in 1992.  The late President Felix Houphouet-Boigny donated the elephant to the zoo.

 

There are a number of other animals, indiginous to Cote d'Ivoire, including several species of monkey, tortoise, antelope, etc

 

There is a substantial collection of chimpanzees, ranging from two year old orphans, right up to a 40 year old grandmother (Judith)

Stop Press: The Zoo proudly announced the birth of a Maxwell's Duiker (also known locally as a 'biche') on Tuesday 5th March 2013.

www.abidjanzoo.org (under construction); but meanwhile view: http://www.calao-africa.org/

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ALGO DESTRUIDO DESPUES DE LOS CONFLICTOS EN COSTA DE MARFIL, EXISTE UNA ELEFANTA LLAMADA CANDI QUE ESTA SOLA

Ghana

List of Zoo in Ghana

• Flagstaff House Zoo
• Kumasi Zoo

Egypt

List of Zoo's in Egypt

• Alexandria Zoo
• Qariyet El Assad
• Giza Zoo