Back to the Wild
Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
These are the most emotional days that a rescuer experiences: when we know it’s time to let our little survivors go back to the wild–to be part of a troop–to get that primate contact they all yearn for. While we’ve sent our primates to Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre for many years, we’ve most recently been asked why we choose do to so. To maintain positivity and ensure our time is dedicated to our rescues instead of social media, we are taking the time to explain this decision in detail.
The process of successful rehabilitation and release is an integral part of any reputable rehabilitation centre. Riverside’s methods for this success are based on years of knowledge and experience that have developed in to a truly successful rehabilitation and release program. Each step: from intake, quarantine, introduction, to hands-off natural vegetive semi-wild enclosures, to reintroduction back into their natural habitat is followed precisely by protocol standards.
Riverside is one of the most experienced primate rehabilitation centres in the world. Their rehabilitation and reintroduction methodology has been tested for over 25 years, proving it to be a true and legitimate primate rehabilitation centre with the highest standards globally. Riverside is the only wildlife rehabilitation centre in the world that rescue all 5 species of indigenous primates.
“Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre specialises in the scientific rehabilitation and reintroduction of South Africa’s Primate and other wildlife species back into their natural native habitats.” -Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
To date Riverside has rehabilitated and successfully reintroduced 19 troops of Vervet monkeys, 3 troops of Chacma baboons, close to 100 bush babies and a multitude of other mammal, bird and reptile species back into their native habitats.
