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Can you imagine a world in which there are no more living
apes? A world in which humans have annihilated their nearest
relatives in the animal world? No more gorillas, chimpanzees,
orangutans, or bonobos?
This is what’s coming unless we take decisive action
now. In West and Central Africa, gorillas, chimpanzees and
bonobos are being slaughtered for bushmeat;
while in Indonesia, orangutans are losing their habitat at
an alarming rate to illegal logging and burning of forests.
Canada is a long way from the tropics where these apes live,
but in this interdependent world, they are vitally and legitimately
our concern also.
We would be impoverished if these animals were allowed to
disappear. For us, and our children, the world would be an
immeasurably poorer, emptier place.
The Canadian Ape Alliance was founded by Dr. Kerry Bowman
and colleagues as part of a Canadian response to save the
apes. The Canadian Ape Alliance works to:
- raise awareness in Canada and abroad of the imminent threats
to the great apes
- take action to protect them
Please consider joining us in the vital cause of protecting
the great apes.
Read about the crisis facing the apes by reading about the
Bushmeat Crisis!
Get background information in our papers
section.
Find out more about us by reading our mission
statement. Learn about our programs including, our work
with the Pole Pole
Foundation in the DR Congo, whose objective is long term
protection and conservation of the Kahuzi
Biega National Park through reduction of human pressure
on its natural resources and wildlife.
JOIN OUR MAILING LIST/
MAKE A DONATION TO THE GREAT APE FUND! We are an all-volunteer
organization with no office overhead. All donations to the
Great Ape Fund go directly toward our programs in Africa.
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This photo of
the silverback Chimanuka in the wilds of Kahuzi-Biega National
Park was taken by Dieter Heinrich of the Canadian Ape Alliance
during a February visit to the DR Congo. |
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