Mahale Mountains National Park & Gombe
Mahale. like its northerly neighbour Gombe, is home to some of the Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees, a population of roughly 900, they have habituated to human visitors by a Japanese research project founded in the 1960s. Tracking the chimps of Mahale is a magical experience
Gombe is the smallest of Tanzania's national parks: a fragile strip of chimpanzee habitat straddling the steep slopes and river valleys that hem in the sandy northern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Its chimpanzees – habituated to human visitors – were made famous by the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, who in 1960 founded a behavioural research program that now stands as the longest-running study of its kind in the world. The matriarch Fifi, the last surviving member of the original community, only three-years old when Goodall first set foot in Gombe, is still regularly seen by visitors.
Mahale. like its northerly neighbour Gombe, is home to some of the Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees, a population of roughly 900, they have habituated to human visitors by a Japanese research project founded in the 1960s. Tracking the chimps of Mahale is a magical experience
Gombe is the smallest of Tanzania's national parks: a fragile strip of chimpanzee habitat straddling the steep slopes and river valleys that hem in the sandy northern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Its chimpanzees – habituated to human visitors – were made famous by the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, who in 1960 founded a behavioural research program that now stands as the longest-running study of its kind in the world. The matriarch Fifi, the last surviving member of the original community, only three-years old when Goodall first set foot in Gombe, is still regularly seen by visitors.
