Wounda hugs her caregiver and rescuer Dr. Jane Goodall on an island in the Congo just before being released into the wild.
A chimp named Wounda, one of the more than 160 chimpanzees living at the Jane Goodall Institute in the Republic of Congo, overcame illness and regained her strength. Now she has been relocated to Tchindzoulou Island. Dr. Jane Goodall was on hand to witness Wounda’s emotional release and received an affectionate hug.
Her name is Wounda, but her name says it all. In the Congo it means ‘close to dying’ – and that is exactly how she was found when she was taken in by the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo.
Wounda hugs her caregiver and rescuer Dr. Jane Goodall on an island in the Congo just before being released into the wild.
And when she was finally released after being nursed back to health, she repaid the kindness by hugging the well-known animal activist as realised she was free again.
In the time since Wounda was found, it has taken years of care and dedication to nurse her back to health, until finally she was strong enough to be released into the outdoors once again.
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