Limbe Wildlife Centre — Attraction in Communauté urbaine de Limbé

Very great and interesting touristic site to visit in Cameroon. The Limbe Wildlife Centre (LWC) is a conservation education centre in Limbe, Cameroon. The centre is managed by the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) and the Pandrillus Foundation, a US non-profit NGO also registered in Nigeria and Cameroon. Our aims are to: • Rescue, rehabilitate and release wildlife rescued from the illegal bush meat and pet trades, and ensure high quality animal husbandry standards and veterinary care for all animals. • Help secure the long term survival of threatened and endangered species native to Cameroon through conservation education and alternative employment programmes to hunting for the local community. • Work with law enforcement agencies to combat the illegal bush meat and wildlife trades. Every year we welcome approximately 50,000 visitors to the centre, of which 95% are Cameroonians. Furthermore, every year we engage with more than 1,100 children through our education outreach programmes. the ultimate goal is to enable rehabilitated individuals of threatened species to be reintroduced to restore wild populations when and where appropriate, while supporting national law enforcement efforts. Currently, they provide care to more than 250 animals. These animals include the Western Lowland Gorilla (critically endangered), Central and Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee (endangered), Drill (endangered), Preuss Monkey (endangered), and the African Grey Parrot...

They work really hard to keep the place functioning and clean. The animals looked very healthy. I wish they were able to rescue endangered species at will from the wild to be reintroduced later when they are repopulated.

The environment was clean and beautiful. It was possible to miss seeing some of the animals because their cages weren't marked and you could just walk past without realizing there were animals there... the crocodiles especially.

In all it was a great experience. There were parrots, though we couldn't see them because they were hiding from the heat we were told. There were western lowland Gorillas; I really wanted to see Chella but he was in his cage all through, but we saw Arno and Abby.

There were mona monkeys which I recognized because I knew them before but there was no info on their cage about them, a python, which we later read about in the exhibition room (again no information on the cage), crocodiles (I only saw one, we apparently missed the second cage; it was not tagged). There were several chimpanzees and baboons. I wish I could tell you their exact zoological names but most of the cages had no info though there was a lot of information about the Calabar gorillas.

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The Limbe Wildlife Centre (LWC) is a conservation education centre in Limbe, Cameroon. Above all, we provide a solution to law enforcement agencies for where to place wildlife seized from the illegal wildlife trade. For all elements of our work, we collaborate with state and national government, communities, and other international and local NGOs to protect habitats and endangered species. In brief, our in-situ and ex-situ activities include rescue, rehabilitation and reintroduction, conservation education and advocacy, law reinforcement, creating alternative livelihoods to hunting, and research. Through a holistic approach, the LWC aims to ensure the survival of Cameroon’s unique flora and fauna. Ultimately, there are three main pillars to our work: rescue and rehabilitation, education...