--- title: Keeping our chimpanzee cousins safe. | Nomad Tanzania description: This is an important update from our team regarding the safety of our chimpanzee community at Greystoke Mahale. 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This is an important update from our team regarding the safety of our chimpanzee community at Greystoke Mahale. We’ve been keeping a close eye on scientific advice surrounding how coronavirus will affect our great apes and are not prepared to take any risks when it comes to the safety of the population we’ve worked hard to protect in Mahale for the past 30 years.  Since the close of camp there has been a skeleton crew of just four staff remaining at Greystoke. We immediately outlined protocol surrounding access to the chimps, putting the forest on a lockdown of its own, with no one permitted to venture beyond camp confines. Should the chimps come into camp, which is rare at this time of year, our staff immediately retreat into the nearest building and remain separated from them until the coast is clear.  The staff remaining at Greystoke include our wonderful managers Barbara and Fabio who have put in place strict cleaning processes throughout camp to ensure that there is no risk to the chimps should they come into camp. We’ve also supplied over two months’ worth of rations for the team there so that there will be no one visiting or accessing our beach unless there is an emergency.  We’re in very close collaboration with the park and wildlife authorities to discuss a combined route forward and we’ll know more in the coming days on what this looks like for the longer term, and we’ll share that out once we have it. 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