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WELLS FOR HUMAN WELFARE & CHIMP CONSERVATION!

9/9/2018

This week the Bulindi Chimpanzee & Community Project (BCCP) invited residents to celebrate the opening - and official handing over to the communities - of 3 new village wells! These wells not only bring safe water to 100s of local households within the range of the Wagaisa chimpanzees, they reduce confrontational interactions between the chimps and people collecting water from forest streams.

We were joined by special guests - the amazing folks at BridgIt Water Foundation, Walk For Water 100, and Dennis Langley Foundation who sponsored the wells!

Thank you to them and everyone who has helped make our Water Project happen!

Over the next few months BCCP aims to help bring clean water to more communities in Hoima sharing habitats with chimps. Watch this space ...
#conservation #greatapes #waterforwildlife

BCCP Project Manager Moses Ssemahunge talking at the launch for the 3 new village wells. On the left is Richard from Walk For Water 100, Wendy Langley from Denis Langley Foundation and Wendy Tisdell from BridgIt Water Foundation who sponsored the wells. Wearing the green BCCP tops is Wagaisa Chimpanzee Monitor Kiiza Vicent and BCCP founding director Matt McLennan.

Richard from Walk For Water 100 and residents at the Bulewa well. Richard raised funds for 2 wells through what has to be one of the most amazing charity walks of all time (5,000 Km!!!!)

BCCP's founding director Matt McLennan talking at the launch of the new wells.

Residents of Bulemwa village (one of the villages to receive a new well) and other guests at the launch.

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Just around the corner...

7/12/2018

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The first ever WORLD CHIMPANZEE DAY is around the corner!
The Bulindi Chimpanzee & Community Project is a grassroots conservation project dedicated to conserving chimpanzees under unimaginable pressure in Uganda's Hoima District. Here, around 300 chimps have lost almost their entire natural habitat to deforestation and agriculture. The challenges to conservation in this region are enormous and -- as English soccer fans will understand -- there are no overnight wins! But, step by step, we ARE making a difference, and we're in it for the long haul.

If you can help, please donate to our project this World Chimpanzee Day. All donations go directly to our programs on the ground. Thanks and Pant Hoots to our sponsor Friends of Chimps!

Photo by Jacqueline Rohen

The image shows Sylvester, the majestic alpha male of the Bulindi community, enjoying last of the season's mangoes.

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HUGE PANTHOOTS TO RICHARD!

6/15/2018

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Richard is now two thirds through his whopping 2,500km walk across Australia and has even clocked in 65kms in JUST ONE DAY! All to raise money to construct wells for villages without access to clean and safe water where our project works in Hoima District - what a hero!!
The water boreholes will also help alleviate human-chimpanzee conflict, because villagers (normally women and children) currently encounter chimpanzees when they collect water at forest streams on a daily basis. These encounters can be dangerous for both people and chimps.

Photo by Matthew McLennan

An open water collection point in Bulemwa village. A new borehole will provide up to a 1000 villagers with clean safe water -- and without the added risk of bumping into chimps!

A young male chimp of the Wagaisa community. The Wagaisa chimps regularly use a small forest strip along a stream in Bulemwa village.
Villagers come into contact daily with the chimps when collecting water from the stream. Funds raised by Richard will enable us to construct a borehole in Bulemwa village, away from the forest, which should reduce encounters between the chimps and people.

Photo by Matthew McLennan

Residents of Bulemwa village collecting water at a stream in a strip of riverine forest which is home to the Wagaisa chimps.
A new borehole (made possible by Richard's fund raising walk) will provide up to a 1000 villagers with clean safe water -- and without the added risk of bumping into the chimps!

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PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE - STAFF DEVELOPMENT

5/22/2018

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Update from BCCP's volunteer Field Operations Manager, Georgia Lorenti

The Bulindi Chimpanzee & Community Project (BCCP) continues to expand in an urgent effort to alleviate the enormous pressure facing wild chimpanzees and thir habitat throughout Uganda’s Hoima District. The BCCP family has grown exponentially due to the establishment of new EOCA European Outdoor Conservation Association funded tree nurseries this year and the acquisition of additional staff members, including nursery staff, tree planting monitors and chimpanzee monitors. This week we embarked on a development program for all our tree nursery personnel. Employee training is important for workplace safety, productivity and the strengthening of skills. Development programs are equally important to increase staff satisfaction and morale. Investment in training shows employees they are valued and helps create a supportive workplace. Our development program involved an informative presentation from senior Project Manager Moses Ssemahunge and Planting Monitor Lorian Mutegeki. It also included a practical workshop and provided nursery personnel with a platform to offer feedback on project activities. The development program was held at one of our new nursery sites at Kiraira and showcased the outstanding work of Prossy Nyabigambo, BCCP’s first female staff member – she showed those boys!

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