Supporter Monica Best named April 23rd Love a Chimpanzee Day and has sponsored this day each year since 2010 for her chimpanzee friends at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest.
We’re using this occasion as the official kick-off to GiveBig. Monica and I have teamed up by creating a joint fundraising page with a $5,000 matching donation!
Love a Chimpanzee Day has become an official holiday around here. So much so, that we even include the day in the annual calendar.
Monica created Love a Chimpanzee Day in honor of her cat Ozzie on her birthday during a difficult and uncertain time when she was battling cancer. She credits the chimpanzees with helping her through that time and subsequent relapses.
Like many of us, even as a kid, Monica loved and was drawn towards nonhuman animals, especially wolves. She didn’t fall for chimpanzees until she happened upon a television show that featured Carole Noon, the founder of Save the Chimps. She immediately searched for other sanctuaries on the internet and found Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest.
We are SO GRATEFUL to Monica. She has been an incredible champion of chimpanzees and is always thinking of ways to make their lives happier. She’s also always thinking of ways to broaden the support of the sanctuary and encourage others to donate to help the chimpanzees she loves and chimpanzees everywhere.
We would not be in the position of being able to welcome the Lucky Six chimpanzees coming to the sanctuary later this year without her support.
Today we are celebrating with the chimps and inviting all of their fans to join a virtual tour, see the expansion in progress, and learn about the Chimps in Need campaign and all of the chimpanzees who remain at Wildlife Waystation waiting to go to their new sanctuary homes.
You can still register for this 4:00 p.m. PT virtual event here.
Even if you are unable to attend, you can help us celebrate today and the future with more chimpanzees to love by donating on Monica and Diana’s GiveBig fundraising page or the sanctuary’s main GiveBig page.
Let’s all lean on our love of chimpanzees today and celebrate all the joy they have brought to our lives.
Happy Love a Chimpanzee Day, everyone!!
My favorite holiday of all! Happy Love A Chimpanzee Day to everyone! Monica, your generosity of spirit has no limits. Thank you for being you. It seems appropriate that this day follows Earth Day, you are gift to this earth.
I agree with you Kathleen! Happy Love a Chimpanzee Day!!
As I type this, my CSNW calendar is suspended above my computer monitor. Since the first of the month, my domicile has been graced with the icon-like image of my dear, Chimpanzee Pal, Jody. She is a Lady Madonna, a den mother to six other chimpeople whose very being creates such joy to those of us fortunate to know about them (as well as their current and future simian and bovine neighbors). To paraphrase a line from “Anne of Green Gables”, I am so happy that I live in a world where there are (still) people like Honey B, Mave, Willy B, Annie and her best friend Missy, Foxie, Jamie, Her Royal Majesty Negra, and my beloved Jody.
Oh, and since he was the first of the Cle Eluminaries to steal my heart, I adore my ertswhile cousin Burrito. What an honor it is to be just as (possibly?) related to him, if for no other reason than he has, and will always have, a much better-looking hairdo than those sported by the MTV heavy-rotation quintet featured in the photograph he is touching. Bubba and Willy are the new teenage idols.
I dunno, Tobin……John still has pretty good hair, and laugh lines in the right places!
Happy birthday, Monica! Another year of making the earth a better place!
Maybe so, but does he sport freckles like Bubba? And, can he bust some moves the way that Bubs does when he goes into his Happy Dance? I rest my case…