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4. Infrastructures and development| Material & Equipment
4. Infrastructures and development| Material & Equipment
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□ Chimp Island Enclosure: Replacement of broken pressing tap and sliding door ballbearings (Images 17-22) □ Quarantine Special Care and Rehabilitation Enclosure: Plastering of the additional lines block added on the old wall to add more height (Images 23-24) □ Gorilla Enclosure: Started the project to split and re-enrich the enclosure (Images
25-36)
□ Mandrill Enclosure: Changing the position of the electric fence to access the fallow land (Images 37-38)
Image 17. The construction team had to break the concrete around the damage pressing tap. Image 18. View of the damaged pressing tap. The water was flowing non-stop.
Image 19. A new tap was installed, preventing any leak.
Image 21. Sliding door maintenance at the chimp island satellite cage. Image 20. Concrete was put around the new tape to protect it against damage by the chimps.
Image 22. Replacement of broken door ball bearing of the chimp island satellite cage. With it, the door is now sliding smoothly, facilitating the keepers’ daily work.
Image 23. The wall of the Special Care enclosure was heightened with 2 new lines of concrete blocks, preventing Jacob, the new male chimp, to escape. Ndanji Richard, our builder, is seen plastering the additional block lines.
Image 25. Crafting of tunnel rod mesh for preparing the splitting of the gorilla enclosure. Image 24. With this new wall height and the basket around the tree installed in December, the Special Care enclosure is now perfectly escape-proof. Jacob enjoys it with his two females, Mayos and Ngambe.
Image 26. Crafting of tunnel sliding door rail for preparing the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 27. Metal pole preparation for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 29. Crafting of tunnel mainframe for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 31. Welding ball-bearing to the sliding door for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure. Image 28. Crafting of tunnel sliding door rail for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 30. Crafting of the sliding door the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 32. View of work progressing for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 33. View of work progressing for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 35. First and second layer painting of pillar metal pipe for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure. Image 34. First layer painting with anticorrosion paint for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
Image 36. Wire meshes preparation for the splitting of the gorilla enclosure.
