Encore: 23. A Second Chance: Saving Chimpanzees in DR Congo | A Conversation with Itsaso Velez del Burgo, Primatologist and Technical Director for Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center
Originally released November 22, 2022. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in April 2026.
In this week's episode from our archives, we speak with Itsaso Velez del Burgo about her work at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo rescuing and rehabilitating chimps and other vulnerable species.
She talks to us about how the devastating effects of extreme poverty and hunger lead to poaching and the trauma that echoes through the chimpanzees and their families.
We hear her intimate account of what little baby chimps go through when they are taken from their killed mothers and what a life resulting from the illegal selling of our closest relatives looks like.
Show Notes:
Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Center
National Geographic - Central African Sanctuary Gives Hope to Chimps and Their Rescuers
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