Chimfunshi Unveils 25th Anniversary Logo, Merchandise

Administrator — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:40:00 GMT

The Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage will mark its 25th anniversary with a special logo and merchandise designed to commemorate a milestone of one of Africa’s most successful chimpanzee sanctuaries.

Chimfunshi was founded in 1983 when a dying infant chimpanzee was brought to the cattle farm of David and Sheila Siddle in Zambia. The Siddles nursed that chimpanzee – nicknamed “Pal” – back to life, and eventually came to care for over 125 orphaned chimpanzees.

The Chimfunshi 25th Anniversary logo depicts Pal as he looks today, along with the Chimfunshi emblem and a stylized “25.” The new logo is available on t-shirts, buttons and stickers at the Chimfunshi website at www.chimfunshi.org.za.

The 25th anniversary logo (pictured above) was designed by Haley Newberg, a graphic artist whose company, Wildlife & Whimsy, creates artwork for wildlife organizations from its headquarters in Missoula, Montana, USA. A former keeper at the Sequoia Park Zoo in California, Newberg became aware of Chimfunshi when she met Chimfunshi educator Sylvia Jones at the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) 2005 Conservation Education course in Sacramento, California.

Chimfunshi is one of the largest chimpanzee sanctuaries in the world, and pioneered many of the designs and practices used routinely in other sanctuaries today. Chimfunshi is also a charter member of the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA).

For more information, please visit www.chimfunshi.org.za or contact ChimfunshiUSA@aol.com.

PASA Siddle-Marsden Award Will Honour African Staff

Administrator — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:52:00 GMT

Seeking to honor Africa’s next generation of wildlife leaders, the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) today announced the creation of the PASA Siddle-Marsden Award, which will be given annually to the PASA sanctuary staff member that best exemplifies a commitment to primates, a commitment to conservation, and a commitment to excellence. Only African national staff members at PASA sanctuaries are eligible for the award, which includes a plaque and a $250 USD prize. Each PASA sanctuary may nominate one staff member. The inaugural PASA Siddle-Marsden Award will be given at the PASA 2008 Management Workshop, which will be staged April 2-4 in Sierra Leone. The PASA award is named for sanctuary pioneers David Siddle and Stella Brewer Marsden, both of whom passed away in recent months. Siddle joined with his wife, Sheila Siddle, to create the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia in 1983, while Marsden established the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Association in Gambia nine years earlier. The two sanctuaries rank among the oldest permanent conservation projects in Africa. “PASA is pleased to be able to honor the incredibly dedicated men and women who work to repair the shattered lives of so many chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, drills and monkeys,” said Doug Cress, executive director of PASA. “The PASA Siddle-Marsden Award allows us to highlight both our past and our future.”

Chimfunshi and the CRA are both charter members of PASA, the organization that was formed in 2000 to unite the sanctuaries that care for thousands of endangered primates across Africa. For more information, please visit www.pasaprimates.org or contact PASapes@aol.com.

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Chimfunshi Unveils 25th Anniversary Logo, Merchandise

PASA Siddle-Marsden Award Will Honour African Staff