Our Programs
Our mission is to engage all people, especially children, in learning how to make respectful, conscious, positive decisions about the planet we share. Further, to explore how we each can make a difference in environmental quality and protecting biodiversity. We realize people must first understand their place in the global community and environment, and in turn the impact of their actions — to that end real-world, practical education is fundamental to our approach.
Our program strategy is to support and develop successful projects with local partners and then replicate to regional scale, creating sustained grassroots change, leaving a blueprint for others to use and evolve. Because these are regionally-based, they embrace the broad-scale patterns of biological diversity and ecological processes.
GLOBIO Programs & Regions
Our Focal Regions have each been chosen for their significant role in great ape and biodiversity conservation. Within these regions, GLOBIO has partnered with key local primate conservation nonprofits. Each one selected based on their activities and commitment to planning and implementation to systemic positive change in local primate conservation; which encompasses the primate species they work with, and the scope and nature of their external conservation activities.
For more information on our Program Partners and Focal Regions, see our Where We Work page.
Partner Programs
Our Partner Programs are critical to our connecting species with people with our shared planet. Partnerships are the foundation of our first step. We hope our models of collaboration are adopted, replicated and expanded to help others make meaningful impact in their own incredible ways. GLOBIO supports our partners through a number of fundraising and capacity building avenues to amplify their critical conservation work.
Media & Communications
LIGHT…CAMERA…CONSERVATION! Visual learning has always been core to human learning – from millennia-old rock art to the latest digital device. Our visual program creates powerful imagery to educate, motivate and inspire, while also supporting outreach initiatives for our Program Partners. Our Apes Like Us Youtube Channel is one key element of our Film & Media program.
Travel With globio
Seeing is believing. Our Travel with GLOBIO program enables our supporters to experience firsthand the wonders of apes in the wild. Our trips abroad combine the magic of wildlife with unique connections to local conservation initiatives, including activities with Program Partners when possible.
*Due to global travel restrictions, our Travel with GLOBIO program is currently paused *
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Program and Project News
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...
Travel Changes Everyday Lives
Much of this blog was drawn from a conversation with Dr. Rick Quinn on our Talking Apes podcast, and from his wonderful book, Just Like Us: A Veterinarian’s Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great Ape Relatives. One of my favorite quotes is from Saint Augustine, “The...
May Primates of the Month: Endangered Species
May Primates of the Month: Endangered SpeciesEndangered Species Primates are one of the most species dense taxonomic groups with a huge range of size, social structure, habitat, and appearance. As our closest relatives in the Animal Kingdom, primates - apes especially...