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4. Infrastructures and development| Material & Equipment
4. Infrastructures and development| Material & Equipment
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Activities
□ Chimpanzee enclosures: Repaired sliding doors and installed new hammock
(Images 14-16)
□ Gorilla enclosure: Installed new hammock in group 2 (Image 17) □ LWC: Maintained the water network (Images 18-21) □ Drill enclosure: Build new drinking point, maintained electric fence and visual obstacles (Images 22-25) □ Installed new bamboo fence along the visitor path to serve as a visual barrier to enhance wildlife privacy and welfare and to improve the LWC’s aesthetic and visit quality around the gorilla enclosure (Images 26-31)
Image 14. Installing new ball bearing on the damaged sliding door in Chimp Island enclosure. Image 15. Final welding of install sliding door in Chimp Island enclosure.
Image 16. New hammock installed in Chimp Mainland night den. Image 17. Installing new hammock in Gorilla night den.
Image 18. View of some damaged pipe. Image 19. Replacing the damaged metal pipe with a pressure pipe.
Image 20. View of finished maintenance work. Image 21. View of finished maintenance work.
Image 22. Preparing a new drinking point area in the Drill enclosure.
Image 24. Bamboo preparation for the visual obstacle in the Drill enclosure.
Image 26. Concreting of metal pillar for the new bamboo fence along the visitor path. Image 23. Cement work and final view of the drinking point in the Drill enclosure.
Image 25. Replacing the damaged bamboo in the Drill enclosure.
Image 27. Cement work of the new bamboo fence.
Image 28. Welding iron rod on the pillar to hold the bamboo fence
Image 30. Bamboo installation is ongoing in front of the gorilla group 1 enclosure Image 29. Painting ongoing of the new bamboo fence along the visitor path.
Image 31. Final view of the new bamboo fence along the visitor path.
January 2021 objectives
□ Finish Mantum’s group maintenance (postponed) □ Start maintenance of the mangabey’s enclosures
