Links

The links below may be useful for finding more detailed information about the species and issues covered by the EAZA Ape Campaign.

Chimpanzee

  • www.dzanga-sangha.org – Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas, part of the Sangha River Tri-national Reserve (Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo), which is home to western lowland gorillas and chimpanzees.

Bonobo

  • www.bonobo.org/ Website of the Bonobo Conservation Initiative, who creates a network of small and large community based nature reserves for bonobos
  • www.bonoboincongo.com/ fieldnotes from the team in Lomami-Lualaba area, doing surveys to look for bonobo populations
  • www.awely.org the ”green caps” program of the NGO Awely investigates the bushmeat trade in bonobos and develops micro-projects. One of the projects that the EAZA Ape Campaign will support.

Gorilla

  • www.dzanga-sangha.org – Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas, part of the Sangha River Tri-national Reserve (Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo), which is home to western lowland gorillas and chimpanzees.

Orangutan

  • www.savetheorangutan.org – This is BOS International: The umbrella organization; this organization and the single organisation in different countries are supporting the projects from the BOS Foundation in Indonesia.
  • www.redapes.org – BOS in USA
  • www.schafft-lebenswald.de – This is the information and donation website “BOS schafft Lebenswald” = BOS creates living forest in Samboja Lestari  (in German, English and Danish)
  • www.born-to-be-wild.org – this website informs about the international trade with orangutans and about campaigns
  • www.sumatranorangutan.org -The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme is a  collaborative programme of NGOs and the Indonesian government fighting for the survival of the orangutan in Sumatra. This comprehensive and integrated programme includes not only orang utan reintroduction, but also research, habitat protection and environmental education as well. The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme SOCP is a collaborative programme of the PanEco Foundation, working with the Indonesian Government’s Department of  Forest Protection and Nature Conservation PHKA, Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari YEL (Foundation for a Sustainable Ecosystem) and the Frankfurt Zoological Society. The main coordinating office is located in Medan, North Sumatra, and the programme’s various activities are implemented at different locations across the island.
  • www.orangutans-sos.org – The Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) is the organisation for Orangutans in North Sumatra
  • www.orangutan-lifeboat.de – The Orang-Utan project of the  “Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt” (ZGF = Zoological Society in Frankfurt) in Bukit Tigapuluh (Sumatra)
  • www.orangutan.org – Die Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) rettet Orang-Utans in West-Kalimantan/Borneo.
  • www.regenwald.org.de – Rettet den Regenwald e.V. -  – “Save the rainforest e.V.” – a German organisation (German, English, French, Espangnol and Portuguese)

Gibbon

  • www.gibbonconservation.org/index_engl.html
  • www.gibbons.de – an excellent website about gibbons by expert Thomas Geissmann of the University of Zurich. You will find a lot of information in English and German, as well as a picture gallery, a video collection and examples for gibbon songs.

Lar gibbon

  • http://tinyurl.com/gibbonbook website info about the chapter on lar gibbons in the book ‘Primate Males’, article’s title ‘rethinking monogamy: the gibbon case’

Javan or silvery gibbon

  • www.silvery.org.au: The Silvery Gibbon Project is an Australian Initiative to help gibbons in situ.

Pileated gibbon

Siamang