Species - Chimpanzee

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Chimpanzees are, along with bonobos, our closest living relatives. They live in complex communities in forests and woodland in about 20 African countries, but their numbers are declining over most of their range. They are thought to have become extinct recently in Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin.

The chimpanzee's habitat area is shown in white on this map of Africa. Learn more about the Chimpanzee's habitat, Africa, by buying Earth's Green Heart - Africa.

Africa’s Green Heart takes us from the slums and diamond pits of Sierra Leone to the depths of the Congo Basin. Dramatic film of bushmeat hunters and life on Congo riverboats contrast with rare gorilla behaviour and moving interviews with forest communities, loggers and conservationists. Money raised through the sale of Earth's Green Heart DVDs supports Ape Alliance & its members' conservation efforts.

Jeunes Animaux Confisqués au Katanga (JACK) report, by Franck Chantereau.
Presented at PASA Management Meeting - JACK Dossier (Adobe PDF file 4Mb)

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The following organisations are working to protect Chimpanzees, or are involved in their study and care:


Animal Defenders International Millbank Tower Millbank London SW1P 4QP Phone: +44 (0)20 7630 3340 Fax: +44 (0)20 7828 2179	Web (en): www.ad-international.org Email: click for contact form

Ape Action Africa, formerly Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund Ape Action Africa CWAF , YAOUNDE CAMEROON B.P 20072 Yaounde Phone: (+237) 220 75 79	Web (en): www.apeactionafrica.org

Born Free Foundation Will Travers CEO 3 Grove House Foundry Lane Horsham West Sussex RH13 5PL Phone: +44 (0)1403 240 170 Fax: +44 (0)1403 327 838	Web (en): www.bornfree.org.uk Email: click for contact form

Budongo Forest Project Prof. Vernon Reynolds UGANDA PO Box 362 Masindi, Uganda UK Orchard House West Street Alfriston E. Sussex BN26 5UX Phone: UK +44 (0) 1323 871136 UGANDA +256 465 20411

Bushmeat Crisis Task Force Heather Eves c/o The Wildlife Conservation Society 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, New York 10460 718-220-5100	Web (en): www.bushmeat.org Email: click for contact form

Bushmeat Project Dr. Anthony Rose Biosynergy Institute P O Box 3430 Palos Verdes California 90274 USA	Web (en): bushmeat.net Email: click for contact form

Canadian Ape Alliance c/o University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics 88 College Street Toronto, ON M5G 1L4 Canada	Web (en): www.great-apes.com Email: click for contact form

Care for the Wild International 72 Brighton Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5BU UK Phone: +44 (0)1403 249832	Web (en): www.careforthewild.com Email: click for contact form

Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage P.O. Box 11190 Chingola ZAMBIA Phone: +260-2-311293 Fax: +260-2-311293	Web (en): www.chimfunshi.org.za Email: click for contact form

Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust Gambia United Kingdom Representative Sarah Foster 7 Glengorse Court Glengorse Battle TN33 0TX UK Phone: +44 (0)788 168 7135	Web (en): www.chimprehab.com Email: click for contact form Email (secondary): click for contact form

Chimps Inc Lesley Day P O Box 6973 Bend Oregon 97708 USA	Web (en): www.chimps-inc.org Email: click for contact form

Conservation International 2011 Crystal Drive Suite 500 Arlington VA 22202 USA Phone: (703) 341-2400 USA	Web (en): www.conservation.org

Conservation Works, Jeunes Animaux Confisqués au Katanga 49 Stokes Croft, Christchurch Street East, Frome, Somerset BA11 1QD, England J.A.C.K. Lubumbashi DRC	Web (en): www.conservationworks.org www.jackdrc.org Email: click for contact form

Forests Monitor 69A Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EN Phone: +44 (0)1223 360975 Fax: +44 (0)1223 359048	Web (en): www.forestsmonitor.org Email: click for contact form

Friends of Conservation Kensington Charity Centre Charles House 375 Kensington High Street London W14 8QH Phone: +44(0)20 7603 5024 Fax: +44(0)207828 4856	Web (en): www.foc-uk.com Email: click for contact form

Friends of Washoe PO Box 728 Ellensburg WA 98926 Phone: +1 (509) 963-2363 Fax: +1 (509) 963-2234	Web (en): www.FriendsofWashoe.org Email: click for contact form

Great Ape Project 714 North 97th Street Seattle WA 98103 Phone: 206-579-5975	Web (en): www.greatapeproject.org Email: click for contact form

Great Ape Trust of Iowa Dr Benjamin Beck 4200S.E. 44th Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50320 Phone: +515 243 3580 Fax: +515 243 8997	Web (en): www.GreatApeTrust.org Email: click for contact form

Great Apes Film Initiative (GAFI) Madelaine Westwood 2 Westfield Cottage, Westfield, Medmenham, Marlow, Bucks, SL7 2HQ Phone: 01491 575 017	Web (en): www.gafi4apes.org Email: click for contact form

Habitat Ecologique et Liberte des Primates (HELP) BP 335 Pointe-Noire Republic of Congo	Web (en): www.help-primates.org Email: click for contact form Email (secondary): click for contact form

Humane Society of Canada 409-120 Carlton St Toronto ON M5A 4K2 Canada Phone: +416 368 0405/1948	Web (en): www.humanesociety.com

Humane Society US 2100 L Street NW Washington DC 20037	Web (en): www.hsus.org

International Fund for Animal Welfare 87-90 Albert Embankment London SE1 7UD Phone: +44 (0)20 7587 6700 Fax: +44 (0)20 7587 6720	Web (en): www.ifaw.org Email: click for contact form

International Primate Protection League (U.K.) Gilmore House 166 Gilmore Road London SE13 5AE Phone: +44 (0)20 8297 2129 Fax: +44 (0)20 8297 2099	Web (en): www.ippl-uk.org Email: click for contact form

International Ranger Federation Gordon Miller Fold Head Cottage Grindsbrook Booth Edale Hope Valley Derbyshire S33 7ZD UK Phone: 00 44(0) 1433 670210	Web (en): www.int-ranger.net Email: click for contact form

IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group John M. Aguiar, Coordinator Conservation International 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500 Arlington, Virginia 22202-3787 Phone: (703) 341-2400 USA	Web (en): www.primate-sg.org

Jane Goodall Institute - UK Suite 9, Orchard House 51-67 Commercial Road Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 1GG Phone: +44 (0)23 80 335 660 Fax: +44 (0)23 80 335 661	Web (en): www.janegoodall.org.uk Email: click for contact form

Les Amis des Animaux au Congo Claudine André	Web (en): bonoboducongo.free.fr Email: click for contact form Email (secondary): click for contact form

MONA-UK P.O. Box 372 Cambridge CB1 1ZS Phone: 01223 210952	Web (en): www.mona-uk.org Email: click for contact form

Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre Alison Cronin Longthorns East Stoke Wareham Dorset BH20 6HH Phone: +44 (0)1929 462537	Web (en): www.monkeyworld.org Email: click for contact form

Pandrillus (Drill Ranch) Housing Estate PO Box 826 Calabar Cross River state Nigeria	Email: click for contact form Email (secondary): click for contact form

Pandrillus - Limbe Wildlife Centre, Cameroon BP 878 Limbe South-West Province Cameroon	Email: click for contact form Email (secondary): click for contact form

People Against Chimpanzee Experiments Janie Reynolds South House Queen's Park Mews Queen's Park Rise Brighton BN2 9YY Phone: +44(0) 1273 602573	Web (en): www.pace.org.uk Email: click for contact form

Pole Pole Foundation (PoPoF) John Kahekwa BP 506 Cyangugu Rwanda	Web (en): www.great-apes.com/projects/popof/popof.htm Email: click for contact form

Primate Conservation Inc. Noel B. Rowe 1411 Shannock Road Charlestown RI 02813-3726 USA Phone: 401 364 7140 Fax: 401 364 6856	Web (en): www.primate.org Email: click for contact form

Primate Society of Great Britain Phone: +44(0) 1334 467174	Web (en): www.psgb.org Email: click for contact form

Primate Taxon Advisory Group PO Box 20 Mosman NSW 2088 Australia	Web (en): www.arazpa.org.au/primate_t.html Email: click for contact form

Restore UK Peter Cole PO Box 310, Epsom, Surrey KT17 UK Phone: 01737 355458 Fax: 01737 355496	Web (en): www.restoreuk.org Email: click for contact form

Rettet den Regenwald e.V. (Rainforest Rescue) Friedhofsweg 28 22337 Hamburg Phone: +49 40 4103804 Fax: +49 40 4500144	Web (de): www.regenwald.org Email: click for contact form

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wilberforce Way Southwater Horsham West Sussex RH13 9RS Phone: +44 (0)300 123 4555	Web (en): www.rspca.org.uk Email: click for contact form

Support for African/Asian Great Apes Phone: 81-568-63-0547 Fax: 81-568-62-2428	Web (en): www.saga-jp.org Email: click for contact form

Volcanoes Safaris 447 Linen Hall 162 Regent Street London W1B 5TE Phone: +44 (0)870 8708480 Fax: +44 (0) 870 8708481	Web (en): www.volcanoessafaris.com Email: click for contact form

Wild Planet Ecoproject Wolfgang Heilmann Wild Planet Ecoproject Verein Männedorf 8708 Alte Landstrasse 370, Schweiz WPE - Wild Planet Ecoproject Association c/o Better World Cameroon, P.O. Box 30801 Yaounde Tam Tam Weekend Byem-Assi, Yaounde Cameroon	Web (en): www.wildplanetecoproject.org Email: click for contact form

World Society for the Protection of Animals 5th Floor, 222 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 207 239 0500	Web (en): www.wspa.org.uk Email: click for contact form

WWF-International	Web (en): www.wwf.org

WWF-UK Panda House Weyside Park, Godalming Surrey GU7 1XP Phone: +44 (0)1483 426444 Fax: +44 (0)1483 426409	Web (en): www.wwf.org.uk

Zoological Society of London Regents Park London NW1 4RY Phone: +44 (0)20 7449 6610 Fax: +44 (0)20 7586 2870	Web (en): www.zsl.org Email: click for contact form