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DR Congo Live Cameras — 3 official webcams
Three cameras from explore.org: two at a bonobo sanctuary in Kinshasa, one at a Grauer's gorilla facility in North Kivu. All three are places that take in apes orphaned by poaching and prepare them to go back.
What you can see
All three are explore.org live streams, at facilities that take in apes orphaned by poaching and return them to the wild. These are not zoos but sanctuaries, which means every individual on screen arrived there for a reason.
Two at Lola ya Bonobo, in Kinshasa. The bonobo forest shows the adult and young bonobos living in the sanctuary's forest — eating, sharing, climbing, playing, resting; a day passing as it comes. It streams 08:00 to 17:30 local. The bonobo nursery is for the smaller ones: bonobos aged one to five, orphaned by poaching, raised with the care of human surrogate mothers. They bounce on a trampoline, climb, chase each other and eat fruit and vegetables. Most are returned to the wild. It streams 07:00 to 16:00 local.
One in North Kivu. The gorilla forest corridor sits on the passage between the night houses and the forest. Grauer's gorillas go back and forth along it, which makes it the easiest place in the facility to see them. They eat a great deal of fibrous vegetation, so they often rest on the corridor for long stretches — a camera named for a thoroughfare that frequently shows animals sitting still.
The provider does not permit reproduction of its images, so this site carries no sample image for any of these three.
3 cameras in DR Congo
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Bonobo forest (Lola ya Bonobo)
Kinshasa · Wildlife · Nature
Adult and older juvenile bonobos living in the sanctuary forest. Eating, sharing food, climbing, playing and resting run through as an ordinary day. Streamed from 08:00 to 17:30 local time.
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Live video
Bonobo nursery
Kinshasa · Wildlife
A nursery where bonobos aged one to five, orphaned by poaching, are raised by human surrogate mothers. They bounce on a trampoline, climb, chase each other and eat all kinds of fruit and vegetables. Many are later released. From 07:00 to 16:00 local time.
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Live video
Grauer's gorilla forest corridor
North Kivu, Kasugho · Wildlife · Nature
The corridor between the night quarters and the forest, which is where the Grauer's gorillas at this centre are most often seen. Because they eat so much fibrous vegetation they also spend long stretches resting in it.
When to watch
Eight hours behind Japan, and no daylight saving. Kinshasa is eight hours behind, so 16:00 in Japan is 08:00 there. The two bonobo cameras keep fixed hours. The forest camera runs 08:00 to 17:30 local — 16:00 to 01:30 the next morning in Japan. The nursery runs 07:00 to 16:00 local — 15:00 to midnight in Japan. Both are on through the Japanese evening and night; open them in the Japanese morning and they are off.
The Grauer's gorilla camera has no published hours. North Kivu is on a zone seven hours behind Japan, which puts local daylight at roughly 13:00 to 01:00 Japan time.
The provider gives no seasonal guidance for any of the three, so neither does this site. The country straddles the equator, so sunrise and sunset barely move across the year.
The nursery bonobos are released once grown, so the faces in that frame change from year to year.
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.