Mwanzo and her baby Ajabu at the Sweetwaters chimpanzee sanctuary. Photo/Courtesy.
We are at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary on Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki. Karl Ammann — an undercover wildlife trafficking investigator who came to Africa in the early 1980s to work in the hotel industry taking pictures in the Maasai Mara — is showing us a wooden box, about five feet long, two feet in width and height, pockmarked with drilled holes.
He narrates the story of the box: In 2005, Ammann was called urgently to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi where the box was discovered. The staff at the air-freight section was horrified to see tiny little fingers poking through the holes and childlike cries emanating from it.
