Wild Rescue NPC

Gill Simpson(our founder) worked at the Jane Goodall Chimpanzee Sanctuary further north in South Africa, and realised there was an urgent need for a rehabilitation facility and sanctuary in her home province of the Western Cape.. She bought the Hannes Zaaiman Private Nature Reserve for this purpose (out of her own funds), and started Wild Rescue non profit organisation. There is a desparate need for rescue of all species of wildlife, and also of the habitats to enable wildlife to live as they are meant to - in their natural habitats. To this end, and due to the threatened status of so much of the Western Cape habitats, the scope of the organisations was widened to include rescue/ preservation of habitats and plants. In the period since starting, they have been instrumental in saving many wildlife (in particular through having an easily accessible hotline), have built a rehabilitation clinic, have leopard tortoises and monkeys in their sanctuary (who would otherwise have been euthanized), have approval from the conservation authorities, have run many courses, have started and indigenous plant nursery, and have cleared many hectares of alien invasive plants.