The Great
Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) is an innovative
and ambitious project of the 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 Africa and south-east Asia. More |