Highlights

Important notice: Due to the ongoing Anglophone crisis, we are temporarily unable to accept volunteer applications for this program. Thank you for your understanding and support.

• Helping to conserve Cross River Gorillas and chimpanzees;
• Working with local staff;
• Participating in great apes surveys;
• Checking camera traps;
• Environmental education activities at primary and secondary schools;
• Being immersed in the indigenous communities of the highland rainforest;
• Meeting with local kings, chiefs, teachers and children;
• Visiting Limbe Wildlife Centre;
• and experiencing this unique, authentic African rainforest expedition.

Overview

Volunteer in the Highland Rainforests of South West Cameroon. Spend two or more weeks volunteering on conservation projects saving these great apes from extinction.

South West Cameroon harbours two of the most threatened African great apes: the critically endangered Cross River gorilla – the rarest of the gorilla sub-species with 250-300 individuals left in the wild – and the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee – also the most endangered chimpanzee subspecies in Africa. They are both keystone species in the montane forest ecosystems of the border region of Nigeria and Cameroon.
The Cross River gorilla could become extinct within 10 years, unless we act now.

Volunteering on this conservation project in Cameroon will take you to work on the frontline of conservation, taking part in surveys of the montane rainforests – some of which have never been surveyed before – and in community education and awareness-raising activities.