Wednesday, Oct 22 Canadian television premiere of 'GHOSTS of LOMAKO' on CBC-The Nature of Things with David Suzuki . Dr. Kerry Bowman was part of the team of conservationists (Jef Dupain and Karl Ammann), along with a 90th Parallel Productions film crew, who ventured into the Congo in 2002 to create this extraordinary documentary about Bonobos and the people of the region.
If you live in Canada do NOT miss this show, airing on Oct 22, 2004on CBC.

The final report on the Nov/Dec 2002 expedtion to the Democratic Republic of Congo to study the bonobos and local peoples current situation has been released. Written by Karl Ammann, Kerry Bowman, and Jef Dupain, please read it here.

Dr. Bowman was recently interviewed by the Canadian News magazine, Maclean's about the current crisis in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Filming wrapped up on the new Bonobo documentary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Bowman, along with Karl Ammann and Jef Dupain, were working on this critical CBC-produced documentary. For more information visit our Bonobo section.

Dr. Bowman returned from the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He was there with the Dian Fossey Fund Europe investigating the current Coltan situation and it's devastating effect on the Eastern Lowland Gorillas. We have more on this critical issue here.

View Discovery Channel Canada's, Jay Ingram, and his interview with Dr. Kerry Bowman, as he discusses an upcoming documentary on Bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

We will have much more news about this in the near future. STAY TUNED for more on this exciting expedition!

We are very excited to announce that The Canadian Great Ape Alliance is partnering with The Jane Goodall Foundation of Canada to continue to develop strategies and raise awareness about the bushmeat crisis of west and central Africa.

NOV 4, 2001 -the Discovery Channel Canada documentary on bushmeat and the great apes aired to high reviews.It featured Dr. Kerry Bowman, Karl Ammann, Dr. Anthony Rose, and others. It is a very powerful, and fascinating look at the bushmeat trade in Central Africa.

Dr. Kerry Bowman was recently featured in Maclean's magazine - a Canadian news magazine.

Dr. Bowman was in Africa for a month working on programs. A great deal of data related to attitudes toward the great apes, the natural world and human need, has been gathered by Wendy Elliott, a volunteer with Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund and The Gorilla Foundation. Dr. Bowman will be analyzing this data, to better understand the perspective and needs of Cameroonians and develop conservation initiatives which are reflective of their opinions and needs. The data is particularly useful because it is from people of all ages, from different tribal groups and from rural and urban settings. The environmental education programs in the elementary and high schools has also been expanded.

We had our Spring fundraiser on May 24, 2001, in Seeley Hall at Trinity College in Toronto. It was a great success, and thanks to all who attended. And a special thanks to the artists who donated artwork.

At the end of May we finally moved to our own dedicated web host for our great-apes.com domain.

Also, earlier this month, Dr. Bowman and one of his research assistants, Zinta Zommers, presented their material at the Great Apes at the Threshold Conference in Boston.

Ebola Spurs Fears of Looming Ape Extinction  Read recent news about the great apes and ebola.

Press Release From Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (PDF format)

- read this open letter from The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.
The above letter is in pdf format. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, please get it for free by clicking on the logo-->

More alarming news about the serious situation facing Eastern Lowland Gorillas due to mining of Coltan, an ore used in computers and other electronic devices.

- Read the article on the Environmental News Service - Apr/01

Oct 19, 2000 - The US Senate unanimously passed the Great Ape Conservation Act, HR 4320. This legislation, authored by Congressman George Miller (D-CA), creates a federal fund of up to $5 million from which grants will be made to conservation programs protecting apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gibbons -- in their natural habitat. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 4320 in late July, and the legislation now heads to President Clinton, who is expected to sign it.

African Monkey Pronounced Extinct Scientists have pronounced a type of large West African monkey extinct, making it the first primate to vanish in the 20th century. Anthropologists for the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York failed to find the monkey, a Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, in a six-year series of forest surveys in Ghana and Ivory Coast that ended in 1999.