Author: Kristine Bergstrom

When two-month old chimpanzee Busakara arrived at the Center for the Rehabilitation of the Primates of Lwiro (CRPL) in June, she weighed little over one pound. This tiny chimp was extremely weak after suffering from a cold and from diarrhea. She was found orphaned in a village near Pinga, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she had been saved by local community group of the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots. After traveling several hours to the city of Goma in North Kivu, Busakara spent another three hours on a boat to Bukavu in South…