The owners David and Evelyn have had a lifelong passion for endangered primates. They worked with Dr. Biruté Galdikas on the Orangutan Project in Borneo where they photographed and videotaped the red apes, gathered data, and helped rehabilitate former pet orangutans back to the wild. They later produced a documentary, "Orangutans: Grasping the Last Branch," for the Orangutan Foundation International. Evelyn is the author of a children's book, Among the Orangutans, and has spoken at more than 500 schools around the world about saving critically endangered primates and their threatened habitats.
In 1985 they worked with Dr. Dian Fossey in Rwanda photographing and videotaping endangered mountain gorillas. Evelyn’s gorilla photo appeared on the cover of Jane Goodall's Animal World: Gorillas. It was a natural progression that their interest in endangered primates would bring them to Manuel Antonio where the small community is striving to save the Red-backed Squirrel Monkey, the most endangered primate in Central America. Evelyn and David are representatives of the International Primate Protection League, and members of Orangutan Foundation International and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.
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