Aspinall Foundation

The Aspinall Foundation, working in conjunction with Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks is devoted to saving rare and endangered animals, and where possible returning them to protected areas in the wild.

As well as the two wild animal parks in Kent, where over 1,000 endangered animals are being cared for in an environment as close to their natural habitat as possible, the charity manages two gorilla rescue and rehabilitation projects in the Congo and Gabon.

In the protected reserves in Africa the charity has successfully reintroduced over 50 western lowland gorilla, 43 are wild-born orphans of the bush meat trade. Nine of the gorillas living in the Gabon were born at Howletts Wild Animal Park, and were transferred to their natural home, six in 2003 and three in 2008.

The projects in Africa have celebrated nine births to these reintroduced gorillas since 2004.

Other reintroduction projects have included returning two black rhino born at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park back to their natural home on the Serengeti, Tanzania in the summer of 2007.

As well as western lowland gorilla and black rhino, the charity has successfully returned przewalski horses and a Sumatran rhino back into the wild.



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