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Karen: Janis Carter shares an unbreakable connection with a chimp in During the years I lived with the orphaned and captive-born chimps.
Janis Carter was a grad student in psychology at the University of Oklahoma when she got a 3 week job in 1977 to help 2 orphaned and captive born chimpanzees.

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Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project

Rehabilitation center in the Gambia

The Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project (CRP) is a rehabilitation center associated with the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA), located at the River Gambia National Park (RGNP), established in 1979. It is the home of 100 chimpanzees living free in four separate groups spread in three islands.^[1]^[2]

The main mission of the rehabilitation center is the caring for chimpanzees. The center allows visits by boat to view the primates, but humans cannot have contact with them. ^[2]

History

Background

Gambia’s Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project started as an animal orphanage established in 1969 by the Director of the Gambia's Wildlife Department Eddie Brewer^[3] and his daughter Stella. From 1969 to 1974, they caretook several orphaned chimpanzees rescued from traffickers.^[4]

In 1974, Stella Brewer released the chimpanzees into Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. However, after an incident with a wild community, in 1979 they relocated the survi

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History of the Centre de Conservation pour Chimpanzés

Janis Carter founded the Chimpanzee Conservation Center (CCC) in 1997 with funding from the European Union in collaboration with activities occurring within the Haut Niger National Park.

During its establishment, the CCC was working to:

Create a sanctuary at Somoria for the Bissikrima chimpanzee orphans (rescued by Veterinarians Without Borders), Conakry chimpanzee orphans rescued by Estelle Raballand as well as a few individual chimpanzee orphans
Develop an education program for the villages of the Haut Niger National Park to raise awareness of the decline in chimpanzee populations.
Conduct a national census of wild chimpanzees (completed by Rebecca Ham)

Janis Carter planned to release chimpanzees after 2-3 years of rehabilitation at Somoria.

Construction of the CCC began in 1997 which consisted of building Somoria shelters and the current enclosures for the ‘small’ and ‘big’ groups of chimpanzees. During the summer of 1997 Estelle Raballand transferred the Conakry chimpanzees in her care to Somoria (Robert, John, O

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Janis Carter lived as the leader of a group of chimpanzees on a remote island in Africa. What was supposed to be a three-week visit to Africa back in 1977 to help Lucy—the famous sign language chimp raised by humans—get released into the wild, turned into a permanent stay. Carter’s seemingly impossible task of giving Lucy back her freedom and a new life in the wild and her role in helping to establish the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project (CRP) with Stella Brewer, an island sanctuary in West Africa in the River Gambia National Park in 1979, is the subject of a Keo Films and Channel 4 documentary called “Lucy the Human Chimp,” which premiered Thursday, April 29 on HBO Max.

“The story takes us back to a very different time, but it has a powerful message for today,” said executive producer Matt Cole. Some of the CRP’s chimpanzees were voluntarily relinquished by people who had unwisely tried to make them into pets.

Others were confiscated as orphans of parents killed by hunters for bushmeat or parents who were taken for exploitive industries. But the once captive chimpanzees now en