INSIDE THE DRILL RANCH | GO WILD

In 1991, two American conservationists, Liza Gadsby and Peter Jenkins, founded the Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre in Cross River State. For the past thirty years, the project has rescued several drill monkeys and chimpanzees from the illegal wildlife trade and provided a safe protected area for the primates to live and breed in. The Non-Governmental Organization running the project, Pandrillus, states that the drill ranch is the most successful captive breeding program in the world for an endangered primate.

In this final episode of the first season of #GoWild, ARISE Environmental Correspondent Laila Johnson-Salami, visits the drill ranch to learn more about the project and efforts to protect some of the worlds most endangered animals.

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[michaelolajide]

This is a really amazing project. Kudos to the sponsors and the workers of this ranch protecting the endangered species.

[helenbola]

It's nice to see that this animals are being taken care so cute I'll try visit one day

[dave]

great to see this I knew the project in the early days when it was still in Calabar. They had a few chimps then as well. Great people.

[temiladealamudun]

Great job! Let’s preserve our animals in Nigeria & in Africa at large. Let's support wild lives preservation and preserve our vegetations, and environment in Nigeria. Let's respect Nature and our natural habitats. 👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[arcejiroeshalomi]

This is so sadd, seeing that funding is lacking for a national asset such as this breaks mu heart... Well done to the conservationists doing great work

[terribarrett]

To eat a drill, or any monkey, would be like eating a human being.

[jenniiferpiiter]

#tesseriverstates wow HALLELUYAH PRAISE THE LORD

[kevinwright]

Urban sprawl is the biggest problem in the world I think.

[corderiusray]

And yahll take them in and get money off them so yahll doing the same thing you just look at them for money

[anthonyakpunku]

Fake news how about Ya nkari game reserve what happened to it this criminals are at it again