The Tchimpounga Sanctuary, also known as the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center, for primates is located on a coastal plain of savanna and forest in the Republic of the Congo, and was built in 1992.

The site covers an area of 70 square kilometres (27 sq mi).

[1] The sanctuary, part of the Jane Goodall Institute,[2] is located 50 km (31 miles) north of Pointe-Noire in the Kouilou Department and is the largest chimpanzee sanctuary on the African continent.

It has conducted research comparing food-sharing and social inhibition among chimpanzees and bonobos.

[3][4] The sanctuary is a refuge west of the Congo Basin for chimpanzees orphaned by bushmeat hunters; authorities deliver the young animals after confiscating them from sellers in the pet or entertainment trades.