Monkeyland Project
About the Project
Nova World is pleased to offer the opportunity to participate in the purchase of the rainforest at Monkeyland via the sale of Lemur packages, starting from September 2024.
You are buying-to-give some of the rainforest back to the owners of the rainforest (the monkeys and lemurs) forever! There is 21 hectares of land and only 210 000 Lemur Koyn’s available for a limited time frame.
Monkeyland opened its doors to the public on 6 April 1998. It is the world’s first, free roaming multi-specie primate sanctuary. A unique sanctuary where conservation, education and tourism intersect.
The Monkeyland mission is to educate and foster greater understanding of primate cousins and the threats and challenges they are facing. The majority of primates living in the wild do so in large family groups. We care for rescued primates and do all we can to give them as natural a life as possible in the habitat we have access to.
Monkeyland is a safe haven and forever home to 550+ primates, that were previously kept in cages or zoos, as pets or in laboratories. They enjoy a life of freedom in a 12-hectares (30 acres) of indigenous forest, with a protected greenbelt of 4 hectares (9.9 acres) where they live and thrive as they would in the wild.
The following species are represented:
- Indigenous Vervet monkey
- Brown-hooded capuchin
- Squirrel monkey
- Spider monkey
- Howler monkey
- Hanuman Langur
- Saki monkey
- Black and white ruffed lemur
- Ringtail lemur
- White-handed gibbon
In 2021, Monkeyland instituted a campaign that will purchase the sanctuary’s property in trust, effectively giving the primates right of ownership to the land. Another world first.
