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Newborn chimp clings to life after mother shot

Too weak to survive a treacherous car journey

In November 2020, a female chimpanzee was born in Sapo National Park, Liberia.

The rainforest there is home to up to 1,600 wild chimpanzees.

Road travel during the rainy reason in Liberia is nearly impossible. Six months of heavy rainfall turn the unpaved roads to thick mudslides, causing impassable potholes that are literally the size of cars!

Travelling 211 miles by road would have taken days, making it highly unlikely that the injured new-born chimp would have survived the rough journey. So Jenny needed a quick safe solution to provide the chimpanzee, now named Mary Beauty, with the life-saving care she needed to survive the injuries and trauma she’d sustained.

When staff at the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation heard about the chimp’s rescue, they told Jenny about MAF. She was then able to quickly arrange a flight to pick up Mary and bring her back safely to their conservation project.

By the time Jenny was united with Mary, the chimp was just two weeks old. According to her, Mary is the ‘youngest, most fragile’ chimp she has rescued since arriving in Liberia in 2015.

Mary held on tightly to Jenny when they were met by MAF Pilot Andrew Mumford, and was carefully escorted onto the plane — a delightful change from MAF’s normal cargo.

One week later, poachers killed the helpless chimp’s mother, causing the baby chimp to fall from the tree when her mum was shot.

The chimp’s mother, thought to have been killed for bushmeat, became a victim to a horrific trade that has left West African chimpanzees critically endangered.

A park ranger from Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA) rushed to the scene after hearing gunshots and was able to rescue the chimp from the poachers, who were planning to sell her as a pet.

Distraught and injured from its fall, and barely clinging to life, the tiny chimpanzee was wrapped in a blanket and transported by moped to Fauna & Flora International (FFI), a global conservation group.

Distant sanctuary of hope The FFI contacted Jim and Jenny Desmond, who are parents to an unusual and extremely large family of orphaned chimpanzees.

The two founded Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection, a sanctuary and conservation organisation near Monrovia (Liberia’s capital), in 2015.

Jim is a wildlife veterinarian and his wife Jenny provides love, nurture and refuge to these chimps — a pressing need for primates rescued from the tragic circumstances of animal trafficking.

Jenny was able to coach the FFI staff from a distance on how to care for the fragile orphaned chimp, while hastily trying to find transportation to bring the small creature back to the safety of the Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection sanctuary.

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Survival of the fluffiest With Mary still clinging on to Jenny 24 hours a day, Jenny explained, ‘Mary is definitely aware of what she has been through because she is having nightmares.

Also, any time Mary feels I am leaving her, she becomes panicked.’

Baby Mary spent several weeks recovering from her injuries and from the ordeal of seeing her mother killed and dragged away. She was also fighting a cold, which can prove deadly to an infant chimpanzee.

We’re now delighted to report that Mary Beauty responded really well to antibiotics, and her injuries have healed.

She will spend 24 hours a day with one of the volunteer surrogate human mothers at Jim and Jenny’s project, until she has recovered fully and is confident enough to be introduced to other chimpanzee toddlers.

Can you imagine a more furry and playful scene?

Six organisations collaborated to make this rescue possible, and MAF was excited and blessed to be one of them. The killing of wild chimpanzees is illegal in Liberia so, with the help of the Wildlife Crime Task Force and the Forestry Development Authority, the authorities are working towards arresting those responsible for Mary’s injury and the death of her mother.

For more information, why not keep up to date with Mary’s progress via the Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection Facebook page?

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NAYPYITAW

COUNTRY MYANMAR

CAPITAL NAYPYITAW

POPULATION 54.6 MILLION

Known for its stunning Buddhist temples, vast mountainous terrain, the world’s largest reclining Buddha statue (180ft long!), and delicious Burmese tea.

Please pray for the thousands of people unable to access healthcare in remote mountain communities.

Become an accountant and travel the world! (Seriously?)

When MAF Youth met the Norbury family

Fraser and Tracy will soon be off to serve with MAF in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with their children Oliver and Rosie, where Fraser will be Head of Finance

Why did you become an accountant? Was it always a passion of yours?

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Fraser: Passionate about accountancy? People don’t start out passionate about accountancy!

But once you’re a part of it, you get to see how useful you can be to an organisation and how interesting it is to be at the heart of what’s going on.

Tracy: Fraser had been out to Cambodia with OMF (Overseas Missionary Fellowship) and seen all these amazing people who were missionaries, church planters and evangelists, and he said, ‘That’s just not me!’ which is why he came back to the UK to get a skill that he could take to the mission field.

Fraser: I knew mission agencies needed accountants. There’s a skills shortage in that area, and that’s part of the reason I became an accountant.

So it wasn’t a childhood dream?

Fraser: No one grows up wanting to be an accountant! I wanted to be a Jedi Knight or a fighter pilot!

Tracy: I wanted to be an actress until I was 13, then a journalist, and then people told me I should become a teacher, so I did!

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What does an accountant actually do?

Fraser: There’s lots to love about being an accountant! I have used accountancy to travel across the USA, Singapore, Thailand, Europe and the UK. I’m not actually particularly good with numbers – I can’t add up for toffee!

Tracy: He can’t figure out what’s a good deal in a shop, but give him a spreadsheet and he’s all over it!

‘Become an accountant and travel the world!’ Not a tagline usually attached to accountancy…

Fraser: It does bring some amazing opportunities to travel, but there’s loads more to accounting than that, it’s really good fun! You can be continuously curious.

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If you’re a pilot, you have to know your plane inside out. If you’re in HR, you have to know all the relevant legislation. But as an accountant, I play a part in all the different areas of an organisation. You need to understand how they all tie together, and are allowed privileged access in order to help others.

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I get to use my God-given skills and experience by helping other people to do what they are called to do better. I don’t want pilots with their heads stuck in spreadsheets! If I can take that from them, I’ll smash it out – free them up to do what God has called them to do.

What attracted you to working overseas?

Fraser: When I was nine years old I heard about mission work at Spring Harvest. I wrote my mum a letter saying that I thought God wanted me to be a missionary and gave it to her when I got home. It’s been in her Bible ever since!

For me, it’s the logical extension of my faith. Either Christianity is true and we go for it completely, or why bother yourself? But it is true, I know it is!

So, I chose to dedicate my whole life to the Lord I love and serve. That doesn’t mean that everyone who’s a Christian has to do mission work, it just means you give everything joyfully and find out where it takes you.

Tracy: He gets really itchy a couple of times a year to go out and do something adventurous, but it’s been difficult having small children and a job. I was like, ‘Come on, Lord! There’s something else for us’ and Fraser was like [Puts on old man accent] ‘I’m so grumpy right now, because life isn’t exciting enough!’

God’s timing is in the decision to serve with MAF now – our understanding of the Bible showing that, if we’re serving God, we’re all on a ‘mission field’. You don’t have to go abroad to reach that mission field. PNG is just a different mission field to the UK, but the Lord seems to have particularly suited Fraser to somewhere hot, rugged, and requiring the use of a Land Rover!

Fraser: Working as an accountant in PNG is going to be really fascinating. There will be a whole load of new problems that will utterly baffle me, and I’ll really enjoy trying to work them out. MAF flew 2.3 million kg of life-saving cargo last year in PNG, so working with them enables me to be part of something bigger and to actually see the difference MAF makes to the people it serves.

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What part of living in PNG excites you?

Is there anything you’re nervous about?

Fraser: Just google PNG, click on images, or watch MAF videos of pilots landing on remote airstrips. You can’t actually see anything other than the airstrip and jungle! I studied biology at university, and every lesson and book I read was an expression of who God is and what He’s done, so to get to experience more of His creation is going to be incredible. We get to go and revel in that, so what’s not to love?

Tracy: Yes, MAF works in places that are not as secure as the UK. They’re there because that’s where they’re most needed. If you hurt yourself or need help, there isn’t always a reliable or accessible ambulance system, healthcare or security system in place.

Tracy: I would love to teach adults, particularly those who feel they got through school but it didn’t work out very well, and just get their skills and confidence up.

That’s at the front of our minds when taking two small and gorgeous children abroad, that sense of, ‘Wow, we’re going to have to trust God in completely new ways!’ Thankfully, we know MAF has good contingency plans in place to cope, and lots of experience.

Any advice for teens who want to want to do mission work?

Tracy: Throw yourself into the Bible! Part of the reason working on the mission field is so glorious and amazing, is because it’s also hard.

You realise how little you have and so you have to rely on God. That’s when you have to have the Word of God in your heart and His promises to get you through.

Fraser: Work on your character! What you invest in yourself now through reading the Bible, fellowship with church members, through serving and prayer, that is all building you up.

You don’t get on a plane and suddenly become an evangelist! That comes from years of perseverance. You can have lots of fun on the way, but start now. Be strategic about what you want to study, think about who you need to be, and what you need to bring to serve.

Don’t just fall into it, set your eyes on where you want to go, and go for it!

PRAY!

Pray for the Norbury family as they embark on an incredible adventure together to PNG. Thank God for the longawaited opening of the Lailenpi airstrip in Myanmar. We’re excited to see what God will do next!

Pray for the full recovery of Mary Beauty, and for the Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection project as it continues to protect and nurture rescued infant chimps.

Pray for safety in travelling during the long rainy seasons that affect many of the countries MAF serves.

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