The Gorilla Organization works internationally to save the world's last remaining gorillas in the wild, by funding small grass-roots projects, run by local African partners, that tackle the real threats to the gorilla's long term survival.
Today gorillas are threatened, not due to a demand for their meat, or their infants, but due to a demand for the lush forest in which they live. For the poverty-stricken communities around the gorilla habitat, it is the gorilla forest that provides them with many of their fundamental human needs, but sadly, the collection of basic resources, such as water and firewood, is destroying the gorilla habitat and in turn the gorillas.
At the Gorilla Organization, we understand that if gorillas are to have a realistic chance of survival in the context of Africa's significant challenges, conservation and poverty alleviation need to happen side by side. And so we work with local communities to find alternative resources to those found in the forest, lessening encroachment on the gorilla habitat and in doing so, lifting local people out of poverty.
Our grass-roots approach to gorilla conservation is sustainable, holistic and having a long-term effect.
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