Ape Alliance Projects

Ape Alliance in the UK

DCR Parks Emergency Relief

Spearheaded by Jo Thomson,between 2000 and 2003 Ape Alliance members and other allies pooled more than $100,000 for support to beleaguered park guards during DRC civil war.Read more

Ngamba Island and the Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Located on Lake Victoria in Uganda, Ngamba Island provides a long-term forest sanctuary to 44 orphan chimpanzees. Rescued from the horrific bushmeat and pet trades, many of these chimpanzees will have seen their parents and family killed in front of them, and most arrived on the island traumatised and malnourished. Read more

Lum Nam Pai Gibbon Release Project

Located in Maehongson Province in the North East corner of Thailand, the Lum Nam Pai Wildlife Sanctuary has been identified by the Wildlife Friends of Thailand (WFFT) as the ideal release site for many of the rescued gibbons. These individuals have been rescued from the pet trade, and have already undergone quarantine, rehabilitation and pre-release training. Read more

Great Apes Film Initiative

With only 700 individuals remaining in the highlands at the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's mountain gorillas could become extinct within a matter of years. Raising awareness of the need to protect these unique animals and their habitat within the local communities is vital to the success of conservation efforts. Read more

Kalaweit Gibbon Project Indonesia

In Indonesia, habitat loss is a major issue for many species, particularly with forest clearance to make way for palm oil plantations. For gibbons, this problem is compounded by a thriving pet trade. Entire gibbon families are slaughtered to capture one baby for this trade, and when these individuals reach sexual maturity – at around seven years – they become too aggressive to keep and many are killed. Read more

Bonobo: Lukuru Wildlife Research Project

The Lukuru Project lies at the very heart of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It covers an area of approximately 17 percent of the global range of the bonobo, and 20 percent of the Salonga National Park, a World Heritage Site in Danger. The Lukuru Project focus includes two of the nine bonobo priority populations.Read more

The Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre (TCRC)

The TCRC was established in 1992, just outside the Republic of Congo's second city, Pointe Noire, through a cooperative agreement between the Jane Goodall Institute and the Government of Congo's Ministère de l'Economie Forestière.  The largest chimpanzee sanctuary in Africa, its primary objective is to shelter and rehabilitate orphan chimpanzees.Read more

Belantikan Forest project – Orangutan Foundation

The forests of the Belantikan Hulu region in Indonesian Borneo contain the largest single population of wild orangutans outside of a protected area and are internationally recognised as critical orangutan habitat. They are home to an estimated 6,000 orangutans in one contiguous habitat block of lowland tropical forest covering some 580,000 ha. Read more

Leuser Ecosystem Forest Restoration Project

The Leuser forests are the last stronghold of the Sumatran orangutan, but this critical ecosystem has been damaged by illegal deforestation. Our team has planted over 570,000 seedlings in degraded forest areas across northern Sumatra in collaboration with local communities. We work to restore rainforest both inside the Gunung Leuser National Park and in the buffer zone.Read more