CERCOPAN were a Centre for Education, Research & Conservation of Primates and Nature.
The place with the highest number of primate species on the entire African continent is an ancient rainforest in South-Eastern Nigeria. CERCOPAN strived to conserve this forest and to protect its monkeys because both are highly threatened.
For effective results, we provided education and practical options for the local communities so that their dependence on the forests became sustainable rather than destructive. While hunting threats remain, we provided sanctuary and individual care for orphan monkeys, progressing through their rehabilitation to reintroduction, in suitable cases, into the forest we protected.
Volunteering
To be a volunteer, you has to be prepared for anything, flexibility is the name of the game! Above all you must have been keen and used to hard work. Short term volunteers were accepted for 3-4 weeks, and could have stayed for up to 3 months. We required a CV and two references. The minimum age to apply was 19 years - no maximum!
CERCOPAN has now stopped operating.
