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.
We work with limited resources and cannot solve every problem, or problems of interest in every place, but we can insure our projects have wide ranging impact. Our program strategy is to create successful projects, and then replicate and partner to scale, leaving a blueprint for others to use and evolve. Our programs are currently focused in three area: Environmental Education, Field Conservation, and Film & Media. These direct our projects, some of which may fall into more than one of our Program areas.
For more information on our project partners, see our Where We Work page.
Environmental Education
Learning drives understanding. We realize people must first understand their place in the global community and environment, and in turn the impact of their actions before positive change can occur. Our education program uses a variety of resources to promote formal and informal learning around the world.
Field Conservation
Our Field Conservation 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.
FILM & media
Visual learning has always been core to human learning – from millennia-old rock art to the latest digital device. Our visual program is creating powerful imagery to educate, motivate and inspire. Our Apes Like Us Youtube Channel is one key element of our Film & Media program.
Program and Project News
World Rainforest Day — Seeing Rainforests For More Than Their Trees
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...
June Primate of the Month — Agile Mangabey
June Primate of the Month - the Agile MangabeyAgile Mangabeys (Cercocebus agilis) are a medium-sized species of Old World Primate, found throughout several Central African countries, including Cameroon, Central Africa Republic and both the Republic of Congo and the...
Volunteer Abroad With Primate Sanctuaries
After our recent Apes Like Us Youtube piece about “Baby Apes Forest School”, many of you asked about how YOU can get involved with primate sanctuaries and make a difference in the lives of these primates. Sanctuaries have very limited resources and rely on their...