How You Can Help

Seven things you can do to protect primate populations

• Read the label and avoid products that use palm oil that is not produced sustainably
• Recycle your cell phone, and replace it less frequently
• Look for "certified" sustainable wood products
• Write to companies, producers, advertisers when you see primates being used or portrayed inappropriately
• Educate friends, family to the issues
• Say “no” to exotic pets
• Support conservation organizations

Zoos Helping Apes

      Click here to learn about the

  AZA Ape TAG Conservation initiative and what your

  zoo can do to help apes!

Important Links

Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (www.pasaprimates.org)
PASA, an affiliation of nearly 20 sanctuaries in Africa, cares for primates rescued from the pet trade, often after being orphaned through bushmeat hunting.

Bushmeat Crisis Taskforce (www.bushmeat.org)
Bushmeat hunting in Africa has decimated many mammalian populations including apes. The Bushmeat Crisis Taskforce provides educational material and timely updates on the issue.

Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (www.rspo.org)
The removal of forests for palm oil cultivation is a critical threat to Asian apes. The Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil tracks and summarizes the efforts to develop guidelines and mandate practices for palm oil cultivation.

Educating about Apes

The following links presented are a variety of resources and activities for use in educating about ape natural history, behavior and conservation.

A closer look at chimp identification          A day in the life of an orangutan

African animal habitats    Animal observation how-to's    Bonobo    Chimp fast facts

Chimp territorial behavior   Chimpanzee   Color me Ape-ish!    Coloring sheets

Comparing hands activity   Cooperative games activity   Cut-out finger puppet

Cut-out bookmark   Dian Fossey vocabulary   Feeding orangutans at the Zoo

Gibbon coloring pages   Gibbon fact sheet   Gibbon   Gorilla habitat loss

Gorilla games   Gorilla stories: Shinda and Titus   Gorilla track matching   Gorilla

Impact of overcrowding activity   Investigating primate intelligence    Man of the woods

Learn to talk like a chimp   Orangutan habitat collage   Orangutan senses   Orangutan

Physical adaptations   Physical adaptations II   Primate life    Primate scavenger hunt

Primate trading cards   Sharing and monopolizing food   Stereoscopic vision

Take a walk on the wild side   The chimpanzee family   Tool time with chimps

Web of life   What is a gorilla?   Why are chimps endangered?