Feb 18, 2021 | Apes Like Us, Blog
UPDATE as of 19 February 2021: All Updates at article end (original text published 12 May 2020) Key to our Apes Like Us program is exploring the impact of threats to all great apes; disease is one of the greatest of those threats. In the past two decades multiple...
Dec 30, 2020 | Blog, Our Founder News
Has there been a more chaotic year? Perhaps not since being plunged into world war, notably the first war, with a pandemic in its wake, has a year been felt by more people in more places. Certainly, the Coronavirus pandemic takes top honors on most lists, dominating...
Jul 10, 2020 | Apes Like Us, Apes Like Us Film, Blog, Film & Media
Oh my god, I just hit Frodo in the head with my camera — Jane is going to kill me! It was self-defense… it was self-defense… I kept repeating in my head, trying to make it sound acceptable to the most famous chimpanzee researcher on the planet. I knew I...
Jun 20, 2020 | Blog, Field Conservation, Where We Work
World Rainforest Day June 22, 2020 Venturing into the humid rainforest tropics for the first time can be a shock to your temperate senses. The heat feels like it never goes away. Even at night the heat and humidity can incite a restless riot of tossing in a...
May 21, 2020 | Ape Action Africa, Apes Like Us, Blog, Field Conservation, Partners, Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary
What is an Endangered Species and who decides when a species becomes endangered? Seems pretty obvious, until you start to give it some thought. With Endangered Species Day on Friday May 15th, many of you asked us that very What and Who question. Here’s the...
Apr 9, 2020 | Blog, Environmental Education
“But what’s there to do?” You can hear it echoing from houses and apartments up and down my street — from kids and parents alike! Most home-bound parents aren’t prepared for home schooling much less 24/7 entertainment. Weekend activities, soccer games, romps in the...