Our Rehabilitation Programme
The VMF [Vervet Monkey Foundation] has over many years
developed and pioneered a new approach to the
rehabilitation of orphaned vervet monkeys.
In 1998 we announced our unique rehabilitation
programme that incorporated the use of large electrified
enclosures that are natural, and by using introduction
enclosures, we had formed within this natural
system, large viable troops, that would be re-introduce
into protected vervet forest reserves.
Our rehabilitation centre is designed to handle
orphaned vervet monkeys of all ages and more
specifically designed to cope with large numbers
of babies that become orphaned each year this has been made possible with international volunteers and gap year students getting involved .
Babies are easily assimilated into our programme
and we try to get as many of them out of the
hands of the public and into our care.
To date, we have successfully rehabilitated
hundreds of babies. They were rehabilitated
and raised within a natural environment and
retained a high degree of their natural fear
of humans.
Our programme can return an orphaned
baby monkey back into a wild state in four to
eight weeks, this is achieved by introducing
a baby to a female in one of our resident troops
living in natural environments at our centre.