Deep in the Gabonese jungle, an island romance has captured the hearts of everyone at The Aspinall Foundation. A tale of two souls born in captivity and forming the bonds of companionship and family in the freedom of their ancestral homelands. An...
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20/09/2023
Djongo & Mayombe - an epic love story

03/03/2023
Love in the Jungle
As Shakespeare once said "the course of true love never did run smooth" and nowhere is that more true than in the animal kingdom. Over the years, our teams have witnessed many soap-opera-worthy moments among the rewilded animals at our conservation...
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Raising awareness of conservation issues with the communities surrounding the Lésio-Louna reserve has been an important aspect of our two-year project supported by IUCN Save Our Species although it has proven difficult to arrange large scale...
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Our large carnivore project in the Lésio-Louna Reserve, Republic of Congo, has already reached its one year anniversary.
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29/04/2021
Restoring Wildlife Across The Globe
Can wildlife populations be restored? Apparently so, and often are, according to a new book freely available online.
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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...
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08/04/2021
Giant leap for conservation in Madagascar
Thanks to the hard work of our dedicated team in Madagascar six new community-managed conservation sites have been created. Including our existing site established in 2012, these seven sites cover an enormous 37,363 hectares (roughly 10% of the...
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The Aspinall Foundation has worked in the Republic of Congo since 1987, and our main project, 'Projet Protection des Gorilles', has reintroduced Critically Endangered western lowland gorillas to an area where they had been hunted to extinction. Over...
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17/03/2021
Community Support and Lemur Conservation in the Vohibe/Vohitrambo Rainforest Fragments of Madagascar
(Results of a six month project supported by the Lemur Conservation Action Fund which is managed by Global Wildlife Conservation)
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Often referred to as silvery gibbons because of their dense soft grey fur, moloch gibbons are unique to the Indonesian island of Java. With only an estimated 4,000-5,000 living in the wild the numbers continue to decrease, due to factors such as...
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