A joint campaign to launch a campaign to save the apes.

The Ape Event Hosted by Sir David Attenborough on Wednesday 27 September 2000 at Westminster Central Hall was an amazing evening. The hall was packed, and all the speakers were brilliant.

The dawn of the new millennium does not bode well for our closest relatives in the animal kingdom - the great apes of Africa, Borneo and Sumatra.

Without urgent effective action, their evolutionary odyssey will soon end - at the hand of their human cousins.

• Click here to read an introduction about 2001 - An Ape Odyssey.
• Click here to read the Briefing Notes for the Press Conference, 26th September 2000.

Click to download the original Great Ape Event programme (PDF file 593Kb).

If you want to help financially, please make a donation online by clicking on this link.

The details of the event are no longer live on the BBC website, but you can view PDF files of the original details here:

• BBC Nature page about The Great Ape Event
• Transcript of the pre event Internet chat