Rescued chimpanzee dies from emaciated health condition

BY ESTHER QUI A one and a half year old female chimpanzee rescued by the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife in collaboration with Last Great Ape (LAGA), has died despite efforts by veterinarians of the Limbe Wildlife Centre to keep it alive. The rescue team apprehended four persons on the night of September 18 around the Nkongsamba area, after they had killed the mother chimpanzee and carried her young. Expert veterinarians of the Limbe Wildlife Centre were alerted and by midday of September 19, they got to Nkongsamba and applied first aid measures before bringing the chimpanzee over to their…