Born Free Foundation - Keep Wildlife in the Wild

The Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) Partnership is an innovative and ambitious project of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Its immediate challenge is to lift the threat of imminent extinction faced by gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans across their ranges in equatorial Africa and south-east Asia. Great ape populations are declining at an alarming rate worldwide. In response, GRASP operates politically at local, national and international scales to encourage the prioritisation of great ape conservation strategies, and develops range states’ technical capacity to achieve GRASP goals. Born Free has provided the core of the GRASP Technical Support Team since its launch in 2001, liaising with the governments of great ape range states and providing them with valuable equipment, as well as interfacing with the broader conservation community and supporting the GRASP administration.