Monarto Safari Park

Monarto Safari Park is a non-government conservation charity, every visit, adoption, donation and ticket helps to save species from extinction.

World Chimp Day, July 14

We’re celebrating the beautiful troop home to Monarto Safari Park with a special keeper talk and enrichment.

Chimpanzees are highly endangered with as little as 350,000 remaining in the wild. When you visit the troop, you are helping to support conservation efforts and that includes the work of our partners the Jane Goodall Institute Australia and Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary.

The Jane Goodall Institute Australia supports education, research and community programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tacugama have over 80 Chimpanzees in their Rehabilitation Centre in Sierra Leone, and run community outreach, field research and alternative livelihoods programs.

Chimp keeper talk

14 July | 10.30am & 12.40pm at the Chimpanzee Platform

Learn all about the personalities of Monarto Safari Park’s troop at a special talk with their dedicated keepers.

Chimp Bingo

Take your visit to the next level by watching carefully to see which behaviours you can mark off of Chimp bingo.

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Colour in to win

Competition ends Sunday 23 July

Download the gorgeous illustration of mum Hannah and baby Hope and colour in at home.

Send in your creation to [email protected] for the chance to win a family pass to Monarto Safari Park to visit the troop! Full T&Cs here.

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Why July 14?

July 14 marks the day when world-renowned ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall first stepped foot in what is now Gombe Stream National Park, in 1960 to study wild chimpanzees.

Her ground-breaking research called attention to this remarkable species and our responsibility to protect them. This special day raises awareness for this vulnerable species and the threats they face in the wild.

One simple thing you can do

Sadly, Chimpanzee habitat is being destroyed to mine coltan, the mineral used in many electronic devices. We’re working with MobileMuster, Phone Cycle to divert phones from landfill and save chimp habitat.

You will be conserving natural resources, reducing the need to mine. Some donated phones will also be refurbished and reused, providing communication to people who cannot afford phones. Others will be dismantled and their compartments reused in other technology.

Drop your phones along with their accessories into collection boxes at the Chimp Platform at Monarto Safari Park or the front gate at Adelaide Zoo.

“Cell phones contain metals like gold and coltan. Mining for these metals to make new phones is destroying the rainforest and leading to the death of gorillas and chimpanzees. Please help by keeping your phone for longer and recycling it when it’s at the end of its life – it really will make a difference.” – Dr. Jane Goodall

About Zoos SA

Zoos SA is a not-for-profit conservation charity that exists to connect people with nature and save species from extinction.

Zoos SA acknowledges the Country on which we stand always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land and we pay our deepest respect and gratitude to Kaurna (Adelaide Zoo) and Ngarrindjeri (Monarto Safari Park) Elders, past, present and emerging.

We undertake critical conservation work throughout Australia and acknowledge the traditional custodians of these lands.

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