CHIMBO FOUNDATION

is a Dutch NGO that has been established in 2007 for the protection of the chimpanzee in West Africa, in memory of David Goedmakers.

Our story

OUR WORK

Chimbo runs its own programme of community based conservation and acts as a catalyst for policies and actions of others that help to achieve the goal of sustainable, thriving chimpanzee populations in West Africa.

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HUNTING OF CHIMPANZEES STOPPED.

With the help of the local population we stopped the hunting of chimpanzees for the pet market. The exceptional farmer that killed a chimpanzee in his field, got heavily penalized.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

Chimbo Foundation

Our mission is to guarantee long-term survival of the Western Chimpanzee population through community based conservation in the Boé, Guinea Bissau.

OUR WORK

Chimbo Foundation and Daridibo

Updates

New fieldwork/research coordinator Chimbo

New fieldwork/research coordinator Chimbo

[:nl]Katharina Kühnert is leaving us as the fieldwork/research coordinator. For family-reasons she will leave one month earlier than originally planned. Kathy came first to the Boé in 2015 to do...

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Do Chimpanzees need sacred forests?

Do Chimpanzees need sacred forests?

A Master student from the University of Wageningen, Anna Nunes van den Hoven, started her research on the distribution of the chimpanzee in the Boé. She will stay in the Boé for four months to do a...

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