At a home for rescued baby chimps in Liberia, orphans from the illegal pet trade receive round the clock care. Couple Jim and Jenny Desmond never planned on becoming surrogate parents to over twenty chimpanzees, but now their home is bursting at the seams. Their dream is to build them all a new sanctuary in the forest. With help from friend and chimp specialist Ben Garrod, they teach the orphans the skills they would have learnt from their mothers in the wild. Just when they can't take any more chimps, they go out and rescue a new orphan called 'Miracle' from her life on a chain.
At a home for rescued baby chimps in Liberia, orphans from the illegal pet trade receive round the clock care. Couple Jim and Jenny Desmond never planned on becoming surrogate parents to over twenty chimpanzees, but now their home is bursting at the seams. Their dream is to build them all a new sanctuary in the forest. With help from friend and chimp specialist Ben Garrod, they teach the orphans the skills they would have learnt from their mothers in the wild. Just when they can't take any more chimps, they go out and rescue a new orphan called 'Miracle' from her life on a chain.
General Note
Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2020.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 30, 2021.
