Liberia’s chimpanzee orphanage
By DW
18 February 2019 |
10:15 am
In Liberia, chimpanzees have had to survive not just two civil wars and an Ebola epidemic, but also poaching and deforestation. Now a project is taking care of orphaned chimps in the hope of releasing them into the wild.
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