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.
Conservation within Focal Regions, including primate biodiversity, is closely linked to human well-being and socio-economic security. It requires we embrace biological, social, and health dimensions. 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.
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.
FILM & media
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.
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.
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
Coronavirus and Our Fellow Great Apes: UPDATED 11 JANUARY 2021
UPDATE as of 11 JANUARY 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...
In the Shadows of a Tragic 2020
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...
Ape Action Africa — Saving Primates in the Western Congo Basin
At last count, there were approximately 700 nonhuman primate species living in the wilds of 90 countries across the globe. In truth, just a handful of regions, including Equatorial Africa and Borneo—harbor 65 percent of all primate species. And nearly two-thirds of...