Photo: Limbe Wildlife Centre
Limbe Wildlife Centre
Limbe Wildlife Center rescued Bobga from his sad, light-less life in January 2018, driving him 15 hours to a facility in eastern Cameroon.
Caretakers are providing him with the bottle feedings he desperately needs, since most young gorillas need their mother’s milk until they are 3 or 4 years old. The rescuers have also stepped in for Bobga’s missing mother in other ways, providing him with love, mental stimulation and safety. Caretakers at LWC are helping Bobga learn the social skills and natural behaviors he will need to live with other gorillas, too, and that is the ultimate goal.
LWC hopes to rehabilitate Bobga to a point where staffers are comfortable sending him to a forested, natural enclosure where he will have even more space and the opportunity to interact with the other gorillas. Ultimately, Bobga could be released back into the wild if everything goes well.
For now, he is working toward that goal, learning how to climb, groom and forage, and LWC is supporting him through it all, already spending more than $4,000 on his care.
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To help LWC save animals like Bobga and many more, the center asks that animal lovers avoid using products with palm oil. Palm oil production is one of the main causes of wildlife habitat description In Cameroon.
source: people.com
