First Contact

What attracted Mike Fay, and subsequently me, to the Ndoki was that it was so remote that chimpanzees would react as if they had never seen humans.

Mike and the Wildlife Conservation Society worked to create a national park there, and the Geographic’s 1995 article created lots of publicity, but ironically the triangle was in an area due to be logged.

In 1999, due this threat, David Morgan started a study of these chimps, and identified three distinct communities with more than 100 individuals. In 2001, the still-virgin Triangle was ceded by the Congolese government and the German logging company to become part of Nouabale-Ndoki National Park.

Charging Elephant	Forest Elephant	Elephant Trunk	Young Elephant
First Contact (You Are Here)	Bongos	Ebobo	Babenzele Children
The dance of Enyomo	Babenzele Men

			First Contact Goualougo Triangle, Congo, 1993 What attracted Mike Fay, and subsequently me, to the Ndoki was that it was so remote that chimpanzees would react as if they had never seen humans. Mike and the Wildlife Conservation Society worked to create a national park there, and the Geographic’s 1995 article created lots of publicity, but ironically the triangle was in an area due to be logged. In 1999, due this threat, David Morgan started a study of these chimps, and identified three distinct communities with more than 100 individuals. In 2001, the still-virgin Triangle was ceded by the Congolese government and the German logging company to become part of Nouabale-Ndoki National Park.

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