Bulindi Chimpanzees

20/08/2026

NEW RESEARCH PUBLISHED!
Picture the scene: you're driving along a tarmacked road, or perhaps walking at the roadside with friends, when all of a sudden a group of wild chimpanzees emerge from the bush just a short distance in front of you, and start crossing the road. How do you react?
We addressed this question in a recent study of road user responses to encounters with chimpanzees on the road at Bulindi. Pedestrians were generally more cautious and showed more interest in the apes than motorists. Motorcyclists, especially, often failed to wait or slow down despite chimpanzees being clearly visible on the road. The study findings enabled us to offer recommendations for reducing risk of collisions and improving safety for people and chimps.
Read the open access article here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/conservation-science/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2026.1822074/full

Thanks as always to Friends of Chimps Born Free Foundation Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz Blair Drummond Safari Park for sponsoring long-term conservation and monitoring at Bulindi.

13/07/2026

With support from our sponsors, the Bulindi Chimpanzee and Community Project continues to grow to help conserve more communities of wild chimpanzees living outside protected areas throughout Uganda's Budongo-Bugoma corridor. As we learn about new communities of chimpanzees, there are always surprises. Recently, we began monitoring the Kasongoire chimpanzee community, about 10 miles north of Bulindi. We were delighted to discover missing Bulindi female Jemima - who disappeared from Bulindi in 2021 together with her infant daughter Jackie - alive and well and living in the Kasongoire community. Read about Jemima's remarkable journey here! Big thanks to our supporters at Born Free Foundation for sharing the story!

💚 Lost for four years. Whatever happened to Jemima and Jackie, the chimpanzees?

With your support, Born Free’s long-term partners at the Bulindi Chimpanzees (BCCP) study and protect a population of around 300 ‘village chimpanzees’, who live in the Budongo-Bugoma Corridor, an unprotected landscape linking two important forest reserves in Uganda.

In 2021, two of the chimpanzees monitored, Jemima and her young daughter, Jackie, disappeared from the forests of Uganda, and no one knew what had become of them.

Had they found another chimpanzee community? Had they survived the dangerous journey through a landscape increasingly dominated by farms, roads and villages? Or had they been lost forever?

For four long years, there were no answers. Then, in 2025, an extraordinary discovery changed everything.

Having expanded their monitoring programme, the BCCP spotted a familiar face in a newly monitored chimpanzee community.

It was Jemima.

She had survived. Even more remarkably, she had a new infant. But one heartbreaking question remained. What had happened to Jackie?

🔗 Read the full story about the remarkable reunion here: https://bit.ly/4vtgdQ1



📸 BCCP - Jemima and her daughter Jackie in Bulindi, before their migration

08/02/2026

This image showing 7 Bulindi males traversing a busy main road is a far cry from a natural forest environment where we imagine wild chimpanzees spend their lives. Yet in Bulindi and other areas in western Uganda, chimpanzee habitats have been transformed by human development and land use changes. This remarkable scene is a daily occurence at Bulindi.

To learn more, check out this article exploring how the Bulindi chimpanzees navigate roads: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.70000
Thanks as always to Friends of Chimps Born Free Foundation Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz Blair Drummond Safari Park for sponsoring long-term conservation and monitoring at Bulindi!

31/12/2025

25/12/2025

Wishing all our friends and supporters a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!