<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Thank you so much for visiting our page. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Please note if you wish to donate, your money is going directly to Ape Action Africa. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Ape Action Africa have accepted us to volunteer at their sanctuary in Cameroon. The charity asks each volunteer to raise a donation which will not only help with the costs of running this sanctuary but it also helps with educating a greater number of people of the issues Ape Action Africa is facing everyday. Please continue reading to learn about the hard work Ape Action Africa is involved in and how your donation will make such a difference. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Gorillas and chimpanzees in the wild are in imminent danger of becoming extinct due to habitat destruction and the bushmeat trade. <br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Logging companies are cutting huge roads that lead into once impenetrable forests in search for the largest and oldest trees to export to places all over the world. This has enabled hunters to get deep into the forests on the back of logging trucks, armed with rifles, and kill whole families of primates.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Hunters have killed animals in the African forest for hundreds of years, but&nbsp;they used bows and arrows and killed enough to feed their families. <br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Although hunting these animals is illegal, the meat is prized as a delicacy and the high prices mean the law is constantly broken.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The meat is often smoked in the forest to avoid detection and to make identification difficult when they return to town. Some of the orphaned primates too young to have any value as meat are kept alive and sold as pets. <br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This is where Ape Action Africa steps in and actively rescues orphaned, injured gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys, some only days old, hours from death from poachers and bushmeat traders. They provide them with individual care, and give them a safe forest sanctuary home where they can live with their own kind. Ape Action Africa also works with the Government of Cameroon and&nbsp;the local communities to ensure a greater understanding of primates and the importance of their long-term protection.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With your support, the running of this truly groundbreaking operation in the Cameroon forest will continue to be a reality. Your contribution will help provide </span>lush and secure forest enclosures; ongoing rehabilitation and socialization; fresh browse and nesting material in cleaned sleeping quarters; health checks, vaccinations, and disease diagnosis and treatment; and all the keepers, cooks, drivers, vets and educators that it takes to make this possible.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Small or large, all donations will help conserve the endangered gorillas and chimpanzees <span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">of West Africa and help with the running of the project in the Cameroon forest.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> <br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">So please dig deep and join us in supporting this project.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Please note all donations are in British Pounds.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">1 GBP = 1.6 AUD</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">1 GBP = 1.15 EUR</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">1 GBP = 1.5 USD</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">These conversions are an approximate.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>