Colobus Conservation Information

Colobus Conservation works to support, promote and advocate forest conservation as the primary means of ensuring the long-term survival of the nationally threatened Angolan black and white colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis palliatus) and other primates including Yellow Baboons, Vervets, Sykes and Galagos on the South Coast of Kenya, mainly in Diani. The organisation works in partnership with local communities to promote the conservation of the colobus, along with other endemic primate species, as well as the unique coastal forest habitat on which they depend. Colobus Conservation programmes focus on habitat conservation and community linkages as well as people/primate conflict management, welfare, education and research. The objectives and work of Colobus Conservation is recognised internationally by AZA Colobus Species Survival Plan (SSP), Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) accreditation, and is the only center in Kenya with a rehabilitation program for monkeys who have been kept in captivity.