Ten years ago, ADI supporters like you helped one of our most ambitious building projects – a complex of monkey habitats in the Peruvian rainforest at the Pilpintuwasi Wildlife Rescue Center, providing a home for dozens of monkeys, like Pepe and Valerie, saved from horrific abuse. A home in their natural jungle environment.

We worked in sweltering heat and pouring rain and found ways to build around trees and across streams, but it was worth it, as all of the different species of monkeys plus kinkajous and coatimundis bounded from their travel crates. We continue to fund their care and the others who have since joined them.

Recently, I reached out to you about some important repairs to these jungle habitats. Ten years of enthusiastic monkeys swinging through the trees at great speeds, leaping onto houses and landing with force, and testing habitat fencing – plus wear and tear from the rainforest environment – have taken a toll.

Thanks to your generous donations, work is underway, and I wanted to share an update! We purchased all of the materials – rolls of mesh, metal poles, concrete, wire, and wood – and transported them up the river. We are underway! Thank you.

However, there is still much to do, and we are only halfway towards our fundraising target. I hope you will consider a donation today to help us continue taking care of residents rescued from circuses, restaurants, the pet trade, and traffickers.

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Saved from lives where they were chained up, alone, and often mutilated by having their teeth broken off, they could never go back to the wild. Our sanctuary habitats in the rainforest gave them a lifeline and a chance to live as close to what nature intended as possible.

Pepe symbolizes so many of these survivors. Chained alone in a circus for eight years until ADI cut him free. We reunited him with his own kind – I’ll never forget that first magical meeting with Valerie when he called out with joy! Then we took him home to the forest. Check out this new video from Geo Beats telling his story. Check out this new video from Geo Beats telling his story.

As Pepe approaches his 20th birthday, what better way to celebrate than by completing the renovations to his cherished home? With your donation, we can give Pepe, and indeed all of the monkeys, a gift that he will truly enjoy for years to come!

I do appreciate that we are also asking for your help to save lions Goliath and Coralie, that is the nature of working on multiple fronts for animals and needing to care for these animals for life. If you can spare something, any help for our monkeys in the forest will be appreciated.