Sandy Jones

Sandy Jones manages the Fossey Fund’s gorilla rehabilitation programs in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

She successfully hand-reared her first primate orphan at age 18 while working as head primate keeper for a zoo in the UK; has raised more than 25 primate orphans; and has contributed to the care and rehabilitation of many others as a result of the bushmeat crisis in West Africa.

She worked with wild gorillas at the Dzanga Sangha National Park in the Central African Republic, and was an animal caregiver for orphaned primates at the Limbe Wildlife Centre, Cameroon, the Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund, and as senior primate keeper at the Monkey Town Primate Centre in South Africa.

Earlier, she worked as a keeper at the Twycross Zoo, the Haigh Country Park Zoo, and the Martain Mere Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in her native England.