Born Free Foundation - Keep Wildlife in the Wild

Born Free’s Primate project has been dedicated to helping apes and monkeys in need since 1992.

Born Free helped develop GRASP, the UN’s Great Ape Survival Project; fights the global trade in ape ‘bushmeat’ and exotic pets; cares for orphan apes at sanctuaries in Uganda, Cameroon and DRC*; funds wild gorilla conservation in DRC; and returns rescued baboons and vervet monkeys to the wild in Zambia.

Born Free’s Primate project:

• Supports the global conservation of wild great apes and monkeys.
• Investigates and campaigns against the bushmeat trade.
• Helps rescue wild apes and monkeys from cruelty and exploitation
• Funds great ape sanctuaries for rescued orphans

Born Free achievements

• Helped expose the plight of baby chimps used by beach photographers in Europe, rescue chimps and create a new chimp nursery (1990)
• Supported the development of the Colobus Trust in Kenya, protecting rare monkeys (1996)
• Worked with local communities to develop a chimpanzee sanctuary and education centre on Ngamba Island in Lake Victoria, Uganda (1998)
• Long-term support of Eastern Lowland gorilla conservation, rescue and education in DRC*, a country torn apart by conflict (2000)
• Helped the UN Environment Programme establish its Great Ape Survival Programme (GRASP), a global initiative to save great apes from extinction (2001)
• Helped combat the illegal trade in gorilla and chimpanzee meat and live infants in Cameroon (2004)
• Helped develop a major facility for rescued chimpanzees at Limbe Wildlife Centre, Cameroon (2006)

*Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire