Yes! GLOBIO is a US-based 501(c)3, our EIN is 93-1320592. You can find our legal documents above. Please contact info@globio.org with any queries. 

While GLOBIO is based in Portland, Oregon, we work with partners around the USA, Equatorial Africa and Borneo/Sumatra. With collaboration being one of GLOBIO’s guiding values, we strive to partner with international conservation organizations and wildlife rehabilitation sanctuaries to help promote primate conservation and community capacity building. Sticking true to our mission of ‘connecting people, species, planet’, each of our projects must have clear, measurable impacts on the people and wildlife living within the project site and the earth beneath their feet. Find more about where we work here.

At GLOBIO, we work towards our mission of inspiring a positive relationship with our environment by connecting species, people, and planet. We do this by building global partnerships and creating powerful visual media and other learning resources to educate, motivate, and empower. Click here to find out more about our visual media.

With our partnerships, one of GLOBIO’s main motivations is to encourage and strengthen sustainability and capacity-building initiatives within our global partners, especially in areas where resources may be limited or lacking. To that end, many of our current and future programs are geared towards capacity-building through:

– Resource provision

– Skills training (especially with visual media content creation)

– Providing project funding opportunities

– Increasing global awareness of the partner organization and their work

Given the geographic range and variety of our partner organizations, each of our collaborative programs is unique to the needs and circumstances of the partner. Some of our schemes, such as the LUCI Light Project, can be scaled up or down to best meet their needs.

GLOBIO determines collaborations based on need, interest, and alignment with our mission and values. Each of our partner organizations is committed to working with local communities and government officials to secure a stable future for their wildlife while spreading awareness about the threats that their region faces.

Within our capacity as an American-based nonprofit, we don’t intend to re-invent the conservation wheel, but we do hope to assist organizations on the front line of primate protection to expand their reach and strengthen their amazing work. Many of our partners have grown out of previous filming opportunities with Apes Like Us. 

At GLOBIO we make every effort to minimize overhead costs and dedicate the maximum amount of your donation to our field conservation and education programs. On average, about 80% of our revenue from donations has been designated towards programs.

Every program and project under the GLOBIO umbrella is driven by, and must adhere to, our set of guiding values:

– Impact: We work to attain lasting, scalable, life-changing impact

– Integrity: Leaving ego and logo behind to serve our mission

– Collaboration: We collaborate with respect and purpose

These overarching ideals help ensure that we make the most out of each collaborative opportunity to drive the needle forward for primate conservation and biodiversity protection. Find more about our financials here.

YES! We encourage our supporters to let us know if there’s an earmarked or specific project intended with their gifts. GLOBIO will make the most out of your donation, whether it’s designated to plant trees in Borneo, illuminate a veterinary clinic in Cameroon or anything in between! Feel free to contact meg@globio.org for more information about how we will maximize your contribution.

There are many ways to support GLOBIO outside of a traditional financial contribution, you can find more here:

• Leave a legacy by remembering GLOBIO in your will or living trust
• Ask your employer if they participate in corporate giving programs
• Sign up for our monthly e-newsletters and follow us on social media, especially our Youtube Channel Apes Like Us
• Choose GLOBIO as your charity on amazon.smile – at no added cost to you!

Apes Like Us is GLOBIO’s primary film project within our Media & Communications department. GLOBIO Founder and Executive Director Gerry Ellis is the host and brains behind this witty, educational, and in-depth channel about the lives and struggles of great apes and the amazing people who care for them.

Apes Like Us aims to shares the stories and struggles of those at the front lines of primate conservation, as well as the individual animals themselves. Another objective of ALU is to provide more insight into the many conservation aspects surrounding primates and their habitats, including deforestation and habitat fragmentation, eco-tourism, zoonotic diseases, the illegal pet and bushmeat trade, and much more.

In short, Yes, we do use select imagery of humans in contact with apes in sanctuary and other rehabilitation settings. We feel that the activities depicted within our videos are critical components of orphaned ape care when carried out by experts and only for the growing apes’ benefits and enhance the understanding of the public to the nuance and necessity of in situ sanctuaries. Any imagery of hands-on contact with primates is accompanied by context to help mitigate any promotion of the primate pet trade. 

All footage used in our Apes Like Us videos is obtained through reputable, ethically-run wildlife sanctuaries dedicated to caring for their rescued primates and protecting their wild counterparts. Apes Like Us (under GLOBIO) and our partner programs in no way support the exploitation or trade of primates in any capacity (whether legal or illegal).  Much of the footage showcased in our videos were collected before Covid-19 necessitated the need for higher PPE, health, and safety protocols. 

Any questions or concerns about any of our content can be directed to meg@globio.org

Yes, per an agreement with another nonprofit of the same name, our GLOBIO is all caps, all the time to prevent confusion.