This forest area had been isolated of Nyungwe National Park and is surrounded by ruined areas, which were destroyed to give place to agriculture and livestock farming. One of the objectives is to create a link between the two forests, so that the great primates can live in the territory under no risk.

Dr. Rebecca, helped by his husband, Dr. Aaron Rundus, specialist in animal communication, and by two former students of Rwanda National University, established her first operational base in Gisenyi site, in a house with three bedrooms that serves as residence and office. Every morning they wake up at 4:30am to be able, several hours later, to arrive at the forest, where they start the search of the chimpanzees through the night nests, footprints and excrement remains. These are also collected to study their food routine. This is a mountain area and it is not easy to move forward it. A baby chimpanzee was the first contact with the group of 13 chimpanzees that has been being observed daily.

The next step is to establish a base at Kinihira site, which is near to the forest. This is going to make the daily pathway easier, but, at the same time, it going to be more difficult, as long they won\’t have electricity, drinking water or sanitation. In this area the contact with the local population will also be closer, which consists on one of the objectives of the project – to help humans to understand the chimpanzees and teach them to live without destroying the forest or killing the primates.