Gorilla (and other Primate) links
- Primate Info Net
- This site provides lots of links to learn all about primates.
- Mountain Gorillas
- For information about the bushmeat crisis, as well as Moutain Gorilla conservation updates.
- Dian Fossey Fund Intl.
- The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is a not-for-profit organization founded by Dr. Dian Fossey in 1978 to preserve and protect the world's last mountain gorillas.
- International Primate Protection League
- Since 1973, this organization has been working to protect all primates.
- Gorilla Haven
- Jane Dewar founded this place in Georgia - and it recently became AZA-accredited. She shares plenty of pictures and stories about her favorite gorillas and those who work with them.
- Ape Alliance
- The Ape Alliance is an international coalition of organisations and individuals, working for the conservation and welfare of apes. It exists to:
* Provide a forum for discussion of issues relating to apes.
* Develop position papers on key issues.
* Lobby collectively for enactment and/or enforcement of legislation to improve the welfare and/or conservation of apes.
* Campaign for greater public awareness of ape issues and increase respect for apes.
* Facilitate information exchange between member groups and, where appropriate, coordinate activities to maximise their beneficial effect. - Great Apes Survival Project - GRASP
- The Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) Partnership is an innovative and ambitious project of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with an immediate challenge - to lift the threat of imminent extinction faced by gorillas (Gorilla beringei, G. gorilla), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and orangutans (Pongo abelii, P. pygmaeus) across their ranges in equatorial African and south-east Asia.
- The Gorilla Foundation / Koko.org
- The Gorilla Foundation, home of Koko the gorilla famous for her sign language skills, is bringing interspecies communication to the public.
- Bushmeat Project; Save the Great Apes; Chimps,Gorillas, Bonobos, Orangs
- The Bushmeat Project serves as a source of information and a facilitator of collaborative development in North America, equatorial Africa, and worldwide.
- Great Ape Project - GAP
- The organization is an international group founded to work for the global removal of non-human great apes from the category of mere property, and for their immediate protection through the implementation of basic legal principles designed to provide these amazing creatures with the right to life, the freedom of liberty and protection from torture.
- Gorillakeepers Photo Gallery
- Lots of photos from gorilla keepers
Photos from Flickr
Great Stuff on Amazon
Too Fat to Fish
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/25/2008)
Good Night, Gorilla
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Amazon Price: $14.96 (as of 07/25/2008)
