The Great Travel Saga of Outamba Kilimi
The Great Travel Saga of Outamba Kilimi National Park Last Friday, Gerry and I got back from an absolute blur of a couple of days visiting Tacugama’s most recently launched program site – Outamba Kilimi National Park. Now, Gerry may blame the travel delays...
More than a Sanctuary: The Forests Beyond Tacugama
Two Week Travel Update: Exploring Beyond the Sanctuary Many of you have asked about the landscape of Sierra Leone and where the sanctuary is located. In a word: verdant. Arriving at the ferry landing, your driver awaits to take you up to the sanctuary (yes, it takes...
IPCC Report And The Great Ape With The Amazing Brain
There is an old saying “if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen”. Trouble is, it’s not just the kitchen where we live, and now it’s not just the heat — flooding, drought, tropical storms, melting ice sheets, the intensity of extreme...
No Room For African Apes
No room for African apes. That appears to be the verdict of a new study published in the journal Diversity and Distributions predicts massive range declines of Africa’s great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos – due to the impacts of climate change, land-use...
Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary: GLOBIO’s Newest Programs Partner
How do we change the conservation conversation around great apes and primates? When we went searching for new program partners to support our 2021-24 Strategic Commitment that was the fundamental question that drove our evaluation of potential partners. Tacugama...
For over 20 years, GLOBIO has been connecting kids and adults to the magic, awe and wonder of our planet. GLOBIO works with education partners, wildlife sanctuaries and conservation projects in Equatorial Africa and Borneo to support their conservation work on-the-ground, and share their stories with the rest of the world. Ever-evolving, we also create engaging educational content to spread awareness to the public about our shared environmental issues.
