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Chimp Dispatches
A record of significant happenings.
2/4 February 2008
Stella Marsden buried at CRA camp next to Zwockle
24 January 2008
Stella Marsden dies in UK: of cancer. Click here to go to her tributes page
January 2008
Two hippo watch towers - funded by Tywcross Zoo (UK) - completed. These help to keep hippos out of the nearby rice fields
4 December 2007
Stella has her third baby - sex yet unknown
November 2007
Lynn Hughes, editor-in-chief and publisher Wanderlust magazine, stays at Badi Mayo and writes “…exceeded expectations….a role model..”
September 2007
CRT’s On-Line Store set up by John & Lyn Thompson
13 August 2007
Kumba, the last chimp to be integrated, has a baby - Khadija
August 2007
Gorko (Melanie’s first son and second offspring) – deposed alpha-male of Island 1 (North) group - now presumed dead: of injuries and depression
August 2007
Alpha Jallow appointed acting director of the Department of Parks & Wildlife Management
July 2007
HRH Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco stays at Badi Mayo. She wrote: “ I was in paradise”
March 2007
Issue CC 48 The CRT newsletter now produced in a new format and called Chimp Chatter (thanks to Lyn & John Thompson)
8th February 2007
Hexel has her fifth baby – Heather
13th January 2007
Malou gives birth - sex unknown.
October 2006
Badi Mayo confirms its 100th paying visitor night.
October 2006
Badi Mayo makes front page feature in Africa Geographic ~ October 2006 Edition.
August 2006
Gambia Horse and Donkey Association granted NGO status.
August 2006
International Journal of Primatology publishes our paper on the demography of
the CRA's chimps: no significant difference to that of truly wild chimps
[Vol.27, No. 4, 2006].
July 2006
Stella receives OBE from HM Queen Elizabeth II.
1st July 2006
Melanie gives birth to Morgan only three years after Malika [birth interval
is normally about 6 years]
June 2006
Stella conferred with the honorary degree of DVMS at University of Glasgow.
June 2006
Badi Mayo featured in Travel Africa ~ Summer 2006 Edition
May 2006
Haddie, daughter of Hexel. Dies at 2 months old.
1st March 2006
Island 1: Pooh's group Melanie's daughter, Debbo, gives birth to daughter,
Danielle.
17th February 2006
Island 2: Hexel gives birth to daughter, Haddie.
4th February 2006
From this date sightings of the endangered West African manatee frequently
made from the water house; 9 sightings in 1.5 hours on 5th February.
3rd February 2006
Kerstin Norrman - CRT's representative in Sweden since 1980 - visits.
2nd February 2006
Island 1: Pooh's group - Milly, Malou's six month old daughter, died of
injuries sustained in what had all the hallmarks of a chimp attack, possibly
by Dash's group. Malou carried Milly's corpse for 17 days.
24th January 2006
Mark Everleigh, travel writer and author, visits and reports we are set to
become one of the most exciting wildlife venues in Africa.
18th January 2006
The British High Commisiosner, E Jenkinson, O.B.E., and his wife over nighted
and visited all the islands and following day the school, clinic and the
Gambia Horse & Donkey association centre in Sambel Kunda.
16th January 2006
Marine borers found in the tallingbaru wood piles of the waterhouse.
3rd January 2006
Stella given notice that the Senate of the University of Glasgow wished
to confer the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (DVMS)
1st January 2006
Stella appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)
6th December 2005
First paying visitors in the tented accommodation. A part of their visitor book
entry reads: "A memorable and epic drive to Kuntaur...A welcome cool drink during
the boat transfer followed by a shower with a view - one of the most amazing
shower views in the world. To see the chimps and wild life was wonderful and to
see Diao (I sponsor him) was terrific. .....wanted hippos and we got them and
crocs but the village was the highlight for us. We will be back for a longer stay
-- please don't change too much -- it's perfect."
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