Elisabeth Benkam, Voices of Africa reporter in Yaounde, Cameroon

To fight poaching, the Cameroonian ministry of animal husbandry and fishing launched in 2002 a hedgehog- breeding initiative in favour of the national Association of the breeders of the hedgehog (ANEAC).

To view video follow link below  http://www.africanews.com/site/list_messages/20081

A scientist from Devon is helping to improve primate welfare around the world at a major international conference.

Dr. Vicky Melfi, from the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, is leading a workshop on animal welfare for delegates to the International Primatological Society 2008 congress.

Paignton Zoo http://www.paigntonzoo.org.uk/news-events/news-detail.php?id=89

In an effort to save the dwindling primate population in and around the village of Mae On, the Flight of the Gibbon Conservation Project and local villagers have teamed up to form the Primate Habitat Restoration Project.

Two people have been killed and three injured in an attack in a park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations-backed radio station says. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7497005.stm

more information also at http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/

Fifteen West African chimpanzees that were confiscated from poachers and illegal traders have been reintroduced back into the forests in Guinea, the first attempt to return rehabilitated chimpanzees to the wild in over a decade.  www.pasaprimates.org

Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:27pm EDT

By Martin Roberts

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.