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April 25, 2002
Chimp champ
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Siddle with one of her adopted children Photo courtesy Steve Robinson, Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press |
The chimpanzeemans closest living relativeis under assault, thanks to poaching and habitat destruction. For 19 years, activist Sheila Siddle and her husband David have made rescuing orphaned and wounded chimps their lifes work through the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage they established on their farm in central Zambia.
The Siddles are now seeking to turn Chimfunshi into a 10,000-acre nature reserve, including a 2,500-acre chimpanzee sanctuary. In support of this effort, Sheila Siddle is touring the United States to talk about her lifes work as documented in her just-published autobiography, In My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzees (Grove/Atlantic, 2002). Her tour pays a call on the School of Veterinary Medicine May 7.
S.S.
SHEILA
SIDDLE: Noon Tuesday, May 7, in Room B101, Veterinary Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania, 3900 Delancey St.
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Originally published on April 25, 2002
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