How Do You Volunteer With Chimpanzees In The Wild?
Chimpanzees have distinct personalities, complex emotions and complex social structures. Ultimately they belong in the wild, and there are rescue sanctuaries set up to save chimps who have lost their families to poachers, neglect or forest destruction. You can volunteer to help these organizations with their amazing efforts. Contact your doctor and arrange to have all the necessary vaccinations for working with primates and traveling abroad. You can infect a chimp and he can infect you, so you need to be vaccinated before volunteering. Once you get your shots, have your doctor issue a yellow travel certificate that you can carry inside your passport as proof of vaccination. Visit a sanctuary in Uganda called Ngamba Island (see Resources below). They try to keep the chimps as wild as possible by letting them live in nature by day, and bringing them into cages at night. If you want the experience but are not that interested in volunteering, you can pay to spend the weekend at the island,
