The Company’s Founding
Ape Action Africa was founded in 1996, but it first existed as a UK charity called CWAF, or Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund. The charity’s main objective was to enhance the living conditions for the primates kept at Yaoundé, Cameroon’s Mvog-Betsi Zoo. During its first twelve years in business, CWAF expanded its mandate to include providing refuge for wild orphans of the illicit bushmeat trade, like Bobo.