PANDRILLUS RANCH

The ranch founded by Americans Liza Gadsby and Peter Jenkins has been hosting primates, threatened with extinction in the region since 1991, to rescue them and help them reproduce before reintegrating them into the wild. There are about thirty Drills in 2019, as well as about ten Sclater's cercopithecus (long-tailed monkeys). More than 500 primates have been reintegrated since the beginning of the initiative, often brought to them by local people, wherever they rescue poachers or market sales. It is one of the ranchers who visits you and provides well-documented explanations on the lifestyle of the different species. While the Drills are mostly on the ground, with a fairly social behaviour within the group, long-tailed monkeys spend their time in the air, crawling along the vines. The Pandrillus association runs a much larger ranch, which hosts up to 500 primates in semi-open areas in the Afi mountains, 6 hours by road from Calabar and offers superb hiking opportunities.