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

Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly ...

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 ...

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 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 ...