2015 Baboon Release.

At Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre we are now in the final preparation and planning stage of our second baboon release. This second release will be quite different than the first in which 24 baboons were released into nature. This time 80 baboons will be released to nature to live a normal natural life in the wild. The release was planned for the first week in April 2015, with all cost projections completed in 2014, but then disaster.....with the dwindling value of the South African Rand almost daily, most of the materials needed had almost doubled in price! With various fundraising projects working towards funding the release, the donated funds are no longer enough to cover the entire release! The manufacturing materials of the transport boxes and the capture and imobilising equipment are by far the largest amounts amounts needed. Once the baboons have been relocated to the release site the main cost will then be for the feeding of the baboons in the release enclosure for two weeks and the acommodation and meals of the volunteers at the release site responsible for the monitoring and care of the troop.