Escape to Chimp Eden - Season 1 (2008)

Animal Planet's Escape to Chimp Eden is a turbulent, mission-fueled series about chimp rescue and rehabilitation. Cameras capture every gut-wrenching moment of dangerous rescue missions and every rewarding moment as chimps take some of their very first steps toward becoming healthy primates poised for a return to their wild nature. At the Jane Goodall Institute's Chimp Eden, the chimps finally experience safety, nurturing, and a loving environment at the hands of Chimp Eden's Rescue Director Eugene Cussons, who is dead-set on giving these chimps a life close to what they would have experienced in the wild. Here, he establishes relationships and rehabilitates these emotionally traumatized chimps. At first, progress is slow, but with every lesson the trust builds as Cussons forms bonds of friendship.