Tchibatti

Today we took the journalists up to film at Tchibatti. Tchibatti is the site where we are planning to move the sanctuary in the future; it’s 4 km from Lwiro and is at the border with Kahuzi-Biega National Park. The research centre, CRSN, has given a huge area of land, about 75 hectares, that is going to be for the sanctuary. We now need money to reforest this area as soon as possible. There is also a corridor between the CRSN land and the national park which is privately owned, and we would also like to buy and reforest this land.
The view from Tchibatti is amazing, over lake Kivu, and on the other side you can see the sharp line were the national park start, the forest. After looking at the sanctuary land we were allowed to enter the park just a little bit, a couple of meters. And there we found chimpanzee trails and fresh chimp kaka, they had been there that same day! We were all very exited! Hopefully we will be able to help protect these wild chimps which are so close to our doorstep!