Since 2013, a young chimpanzee named Manno has lived in a private zoo in Dohuk, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, near Mosul after being stolen from his mother in Central Africa as an infant and trafficked.
In Dohuk he’s lived on fruit, caffeinated drinks and junk food.
But last Wednesday, Manno arrived at Nairobi Kenya’s International Airport on an Emirates cargo plane after an almost 24-hour trip from Erbil, Iraq.
He will spend 90 days in quarantine and then travel to the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Nanyuki, three hours from Nairobi.
The effort to get Manno to his new home involved the United Nations’ Great Apes Survival Partnership, Jane Goodall, the Project to End Great Ape Slavery, Canadians, Iraqis, Kenyans, Americans, Kurds and Emiratis.
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