Cooperation partners
We are a member of the Ape Alliance, a coalition of great ape protection organisations. One of the most important aims is the fight against the killing of great apes for their meat.
The photographer Christian Kaiser has permitted us to use many of his gorilla photos as well as photos documenting gorilla conservation.
We have been cooperating with EAZA since 2000 in the bushmeat campaign. During that campaign, substantial funds were raised too; a part of these donations supported our activities against the bushmeat trade.
The Gorilla Doctors provide veterinary care to the critically endangered mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They provide health care for the habituated gorilla groups in all three countries, as well as for the orphans confiscated from poachers. The Gorilla Doctors Employee Health Program aims to prevent disease transmission between park rangers and the gorillas. We supported several activities of the Gorilla Doctors.
GrASP is an UNEP (UN Environment Programme) initiative for the conservation of the great apes. We are an official partner of GrASP.
Authority for nature conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The IGCP is a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It supports mountain gorilla conservation projects in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda. We have worked together with IGCP in various activities.
"Mondberge" is a German community internet platform. With their contents the produce a book that also supports one of our gorilla conservation projects.
Rettet den Regenwald supports environmental groups and conservation projects in Middle and South America, Asia and Africa - and the organisation supports worldwide informational exchange with many other conservation groups including us. They also have supported our projects.
Tengwood Organization, a Swiss non-profit conservation initiative, was created to aid in the conservation of primates in the Cross-Sanaga region of Nigeria and Cameroon with a global focus on the issue of wildlife trafficking and wild meat smuggling. Tengwood has carried out various bushmeat studies.
We worked together with the Wildlife Conservation Society several times, first in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and more recently in the Cross River area in Nigeria and Cameroon.