Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 08 April 2011 • 3:06pm Bonobos (formerly known as pygmy chimpanzees) are the rarest and most endangered of all the great apes.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there's an effort to save one of humankind's closest living relatives: the bonobo. This benefits the animals, brain research and the economy of the DRC.

Only found south of the Congo River, Democratic Republic of Congo, bonobos are subject to illegal trafficking for their meat and babies, which are sold as pets. Saving bonobos with local communities ...

Lola Ya Bonobo, or "Bonobo Paradise" in the Lingala language, is an 86-acre sanctuary set in verdant hills 20 miles south of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

June 5, 2007 -- Even in the arms of his surrogate mother, Yolo looks afraid. The 3-year-old bonobo (a type of chimpanzee) has been through a lot. Yolo is a bushmeat orphan; hunters killed his ...

Only about 20,000 wild bonobos are left, and they are found only in the central rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... who founded Lola ya Bonobo in 1994.

Lola ya Bonobo is home to around 60 bonobos who live in 30 hectares of primary forest. Credit : Martin Harvey / Photolibrary Typically, the sanctuary's inmates arrive as young infants.