CARE: Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education, Grietjie Nature Reserve, Phalaborwa (2026)

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01/05/2026

From tiny, uncertain arrivals… to thriving, wild-hearted family members 🐒💛

The first clips take us back to when Tink, Georgina, and Rolphe arrived fragile, alone, and finding safety in our nursery quarantine. Every step then was about comfort, healing, and learning to trust again.

And now… look at them. The last clips say it all. Strong, confident, and completely embraced by their new troops surrounded by baboons who have become their family.

This is why we do what we do.
Not just rescue, but a second chance at belonging, at growing up wild, and at finding their place where they truly belong.

Here’s to Tink, Georgina, and Rolphe and to every baboon who’s come to us and their journeys from orphan to family 🐾✨

🌍IMPORTANT NOTE: **Baboons are not pets & should not be forced to live with humans.**
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🐵 The baboon orphans at C.A.R.E. Rehabilitation Centre, Limpopo, South Africa are victims of wildlife crime, hunting, trapping and the illegal pet trade. Their mothers were tragically killed by hunters, farmers, poachers and require intensive, 24hour care.
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🐾Thanks to the dedicated, educated & professional caregivers and staff, the orphans are being rehabilitated so that they will be able to thrive with others in a natural and safe environment.
Please support C.A.R.E.’s efforts to rescue, rehabilitate & release baboons in need, keeping wild baboons wild!
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27/04/2026

Misty mornings, golden sunrises, and one of our semi-wild orphans soaking in the peace from high in the trees 🌿🌅

This is the life we want for every baboon that comes into our care a life filled with safety, healing, family, and eventually the freedom they deserve. Every step of rehabilitation is about giving them the chance to be wild again. 🐒✨

Photo credit Volunteer

🌍IMPORTANT NOTE:
**Baboons are not pets & should not be forced to live with humans.**
🌿
🐵 The baboon orphans at C.A.R.E. Rehabilitation Centre, Limpopo, South Africa are victims of wildlife crime, hunting, trapping and the illegal pet trade. Their mothers were tragically killed by hunters, farmers, poachers and require intensive, 24hour care.
🌿
🐾Thanks to the dedicated, educated & professional caregivers and staff, the orphans are being rehabilitated so that they will be able to thrive with others in a natural and safe environment.
Please support C.A.R.E.’s efforts to rescue, rehabilitate & release baboons in need, keeping wild baboons wild!
🌿
👫VOLUNTEER www.primatecare.org/volunteer 🐵DONATE www.primatecare.org/donate
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21/04/2026

Dear friends - our lovely Nette has asked for some new tools and would LOVE a new rake. The one she has is now worn down and not very easy to use!
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How to get Nette a new rake (or two)? You can donate to CARE directly or use takealot.com - an online store, here’s some links to what we are hoping for;
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Flexi Plastic Rake - Pack of 2 available to buy online at We offer fast, reliable delivery to your door.
https://www.takealot.com/flexi-plastic-rake-pack-of-2/PLID90379133
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Lasher Tools - Combination Wooden Handle Leaf Rake available to buy online at We offer fast, reliable delivery to your door.
https://www.takealot.com/lasher-tools-combination-wooden-handle-leaf-rake/PLID32819491
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We’d love some new brooms for the nursery, bonding and troop clean too!-
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Camco Platform Broom - Hard Bristle 450mm available to buy online at We offer fast, reliable delivery to your door.
https://www.takealot.com/camco-platform-broom-hard-bristle-450mm/PLID94738223

*PayPal*; [email protected]
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*EFT*
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Bank: First National Bank (FNB)
Acc Name: C.A.R.E.
Acc No: 6202 5834 187
Branch: Phalaborwa
Branch Code: 270-452
Address: 15 Wilger Ave, Phalaborwa, 1390, South Africa
SWIFT number (for overseas transfers): FIRN ZA JJ ###
C.A.R.E. Address: Plot 5 Grietjie Nature Reserve, Phalaborwa, 1390
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If you order to takealot you can deliver it to the option “Phalaborwa Pick Up Point” which is 3 Park Street, Phalaborwa, 1390
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Send us the QR code when you get one and we will collect! Easy!
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Every item, load of food, bill paid is all possible because of donations. Without you; we couldn’t function! Please help today.
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16/04/2026

The moment Kristi and orphan Tinkerbell stepped into the transport cage so we could take them from the Bonding Enclosure to their new life together! Exciting steps!
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Orphan Baby Baboon Tinkerbell has taken her next brave step 💛
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She’s now been moved down to an enclosure right next to her adoptive family, the Kong troop with foster mum Kristi. Over the next few days, she’ll stay here to safely settle in, observe her new neighbours, and start getting familiar with all the new faces, sounds, and dynamics.
-Once she’s feeling comfortable & confident, we’ll begin gentle introductions with half of the troop taking it slow, on her terms, just as it should be.
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Every small step is a big milestone for little Tink, and we couldn’t be prouder of how far she’s come. Tinkerbell had some “quirks” in her behaviour as a baby in the nursery, resulting from the trauma of her past; one thing she did a lot was not seek comfort in her caregivers, but often go and hug a wall when she was scared. This isn’t normal, baboon babies seek comfort usually in a being - not an object or concrete thing, but it was what she had gotten used to prior to her arrival. It was sad to see. And so, seeing her so at home with Kristi, her little hands clinging to Kristi’s fur, just like she would’ve clung to her mother fur, is a priceless reward. Tink is still very young, with a beautiful pink face of infancy and will now be raised by her own kind, facilitating her journey back to being the wild little baboon she was born to be.
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Kristi, one of our rescued baboons, is the most wonderful foster mother and observing the pair and their special, calm and caring bond is so heartwarming. Kristi has helped facilitate many other orphan babies join her troop on the past and never ceases to amaze us with her incredible personality. During the bonding process she was calm and took everything in her stride, as did little Tink.
No longer an orphan all alone in the world.
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🌍IMPORTANT NOTE:
**Baboons are not pets & should not be forced to live with humans.**
🌿
🐵 The baboon orphans at C.A.R.E. Rehabilitation Centre, Limpopo, South Africa are victims of wildlife crime, hunting, trapping and the illegal pet trade. Their mothers were tragically killed by hunters, farmers, poachers and require intensive, 24hour care.
🌿
🐾Thanks to the dedicated, educated & professional caregivers and staff, the orphans are being rehabilitated so that they will be able to thrive with others in a natural and safe environment.
Please support C.A.R.E.’s efforts to rescue, rehabilitate & release baboons in need, keeping wild baboons wild!
🌿
👫VOLUNTEER www.primatecare.org/volunteer 🐵DONATE www.primatecare.org/donate
🐾 SHARE
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14/04/2026

They didn’t choose to start over… human cruelty & apathy took everything from them & made that choice for them.
But in the middle of loss, fear, and everything they’ve known being taken away, they find something unexpected each other after their rescue.

Here, at C.A.R.E. broken beginnings turn into second chances.
Strangers become siblings.
And a group of orphans becomes a family.

They may not have chosen this path, but together, they’re never walking it alone again. And they need your help.

🌍IMPORTANT NOTE:
**Baboons are not pets & should not be forced to live with humans.**
🌿
🐵 The baboon orphans at C.A.R.E. Rehabilitation Centre, Limpopo, South Africa are victims of wildlife crime, hunting, trapping and the illegal pet trade. Their mothers were tragically killed by hunters, farmers, poachers and require intensive, 24hour care.
🌿
🐾Thanks to the dedicated, educated & professional caregivers and staff, the orphans are being rehabilitated so that they will be able to thrive with others in a natural and safe environment.
Please support C.A.R.E.’s efforts to rescue, rehabilitate & release baboons in need, keeping wild baboons wild!
🌿
👫VOLUNTEER www.primatecare.org/volunteer 🐵DONATE www.primatecare.org/donate
🐾 SHARE
🌿
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Grietjie Nature Reserve
Phalaborwa
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Telephone

+27725461308

Website

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