Endangered Barbary Macaques in Morocco Face Crisis After Wildfires, Conservation Efforts Seek Donations

The Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park (AWCP) supports the initiative. It has already made a donation of £1,500. According to Jessica Leaper, the park’s manager, the donations are sent online to the AWCP and will be used to raise awareness, but also to regenerate what has been destroyed by the fire, such as educational centers and communities. "Their work helps raise public awareness of the plight of the Barbary macaque, that it is an endangered species, that there are fewer in the wild, the threats to their habitat, the threats to their populations as well," she said in an interview with Chronicle.gi.

The AWCP’s wish, she said, is to collect "as much as possible" in donations for the cause. "Hundreds" of macaques have already been killed by the fire, and urgent action is needed to save them. Hence the importance of the call for donations.