In the forests of Sierra Leone, Bala Amarasekaran has spent three decades building a sanctuary, and a life, around orphaned ...

Bala Amarasekaran has never felt that running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in the West African ...

Chimp refuge shuts doors to tourists in deforestation protest - Workers said deforestation in the area was fuelled by ‘land ...

Bala Amarasekaran and his wife, Sharmila, spotted the baby chimpanzee tied to a tree in a village in a rural part of Sierra Leone. He was for sale. The couple bought the animal and pledged to care ...

Bala Amarasekaran, the founder of Tacugama Sanctuary, has dedicated 30 years of his life to rescuing and protecting chimpanzees.

Its mother had been killed by hunters, and the accountant - Bala Amarasekaran (a Sri Lankan by birth) decided he and his wife would rescue the chimpanzee they named Bruno.

Bala Amarasekaran is often torn between his human family and what he calls his "hairy family". That is because Bala runs a sanctuary for chimpanzees in Sierra Leone and regards the chimps as his ...

Bala Amarasekaran, the Sanctuary's founder and program director, fears that the economic damage will not be quickly turned around, "it took us ten years to wipe out the rebel war image, now it is ...

Palu-Palu the gibbon, watches as Bala Amarasekaran, founder of the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone, is interviewed Friday at the International Protection League sanctuary in Summerville.

Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of ...

Bala Amarasekaran and his wife, Sharmila, spotted the baby chimpanzee tied to a tree in a village in a rural part of Sierra Leone. He was for sale. The couple bought the animal and pledged to care ...