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Meet The Team

2025

Shedrack Lukas (left) on the history of GMERC, from the very origins in 2008!
When we began, there were only 5 of us, Alex, Fiona, and 2 of my colleagues.
We were a very small team in those days.
Mashaka Alimas (right) on his personal journey and how he ended up with GMERC back in 2011
I began work with chimpanzees on Kalobwe Mountain, near my village. In the early days, we used bananas to habituate chimpanzees. We learned since then that there are dangers to provisioning, and in time they can learn to tolerate researcher presence, like at Issa.

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