The Aspinall Foundation

At the heart of Port Lympne Reserve in Kent you'll find the largest group of western lowland gorillas in the UK. Impressive silverback, Kouillou and his eleven females and three youngsters reside at The Palace of the Apes, where they can often be...

A day out at Howletts Wild Animal Park is not complete without a visit to our western lowland gorilla family. Gentle giant Ebeki, the silverback, leads his group of four females; Dihi, Juma, Shumba and Emmie, plus young male Ikebe and hand-reared...

Conservation history was made today as The Aspinall Foundation announced the first ever birth to captive-born gorillas in the wild, part of the Aspinall Foundation's ground-breaking gorilla reintroduction project in the Batéké Plateau National Park,...

RescueWhen the young female Javan gibbon, known as Femi, arrived at our Javan Primate Rehabilitation Centre in March 2018 she was less than two years old. A victim of the illegal pet trade she had been fortunate in one respect - her confiscation in...

We are delighted to bring you news of Joshi, one of our Howletts gorillas, and his epic journey back to the wild. Joshi, a 30-stone, 13-year-old male born at Howletts to parents Kijo and Shumba, was transferred to Congo as part of the Back To The...

Our large carnivore project in the Lésio-Louna Reserve, Republic of Congo, has already reached its one year anniversary.

Can wildlife populations be restored? Apparently so, and often are, according to a new book freely available online.

As part of our project to establish the presence of leopards and lions in the Lésio-Louna Reserve, Congo we have been able to position more camera traps throughout the protected area. The data collected is increasing our knowledge of the species...

It is now several months since we began our current two-year project supported by IUCN Save our Species to release rehabilitated Javan gibbons at Mt Tilu Nature Reserve. This project follows an existing programme at the project site which had...

Keepers at Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve have welcomed three adorable baby white belted ruffed lemurs born on the 26^th March 2021.