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Great Apes Survival Partnership IMSA FUSION STEM Webinar - 2012

Great Apes Survival Partnership IMSA FUSION STEM Webinar - 2012. What is GRASP?. Only species-specific conservation programme within United Nations (U.N.) Unique alliance of member nations, U.N. agencies, conservation NGOs, and private supporters

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Great Apes Survival Partnership IMSA FUSION STEM Webinar - 2012

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  1. Great Apes Survival Partnership IMSA FUSION STEM Webinar - 2012

  2. What is GRASP? • Only species-specific conservation programme within United Nations (U.N.) • Unique alliance of member nations, U.N. agencies, conservation NGOs, and private supporters • Mandate: Conserve great apes and habitat in Africa and Asia

  3. What Are Great Apes? • Primate taxa family • Physical characteristics fingers / toes / no tails / large brain • Intelligence Extremely smart • DNA 98.6 % of same genes as humans

  4. Great Apes Species: Africa • Gorilla • Chimpanzee • Bonobo

  5. Great Ape Species: Asia • Orangutan

  6. Why Focus on Great Apes? • Flagship Species Charismatic & highly intelligent • Broad Distribution Asia & Africa • ExtinctionThreat Critically endangered

  7. Why Focus on Great Apes? • Human Connection

  8. Who Am I? • Doug Cress: Journalist

  9. Who am I? • Doug Cress: Make-Up Artist

  10. Who Am I? • Doug Cress: Badminton Referee • 1996 Olympic Games • Men’s Gold Medal Match

  11. Great Ape Odyssey • Visited sanctuary in Zambia in 1999 • Immediate connection • Began to volunteer • Raise funds

  12. Great Ape Odyssey • Managed Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) • 2002-2011 • 22 sites / 12 countries • 3,000 orphaned primates

  13. Great Ape Threats • Habitat loss & deforestation

  14. Great Ape Threats • Human encroachment & disease

  15. Great Ape Threats • Bushmeat & illegal trade

  16. Great Ape Threats • Mining & palm oil

  17. Photo credit Thomas Faivre-Duboz

  18. Photo credits Background stadium Thomas Faivre-Duboz, forest taken from H.-D. Viktor Boehm globalcarbonproject, labled free for illustrative purposes, Photo montage by Alan Belward, Joint Research Centre

  19. Photo credits Background stadium Thomas Faivre-Duboz, forest taken from H.-D. Viktor Boehm globalcarbonproject, labled free for illustrative purposes, post-harvest brash taken from CIFOR • Photo montage by Alan Belward, Joint Research Centre

  20. Photo credit Thomas Faivre-Duboz, modified by Alan Belward • Photo credit championsportsradio.com/, JRC • 5.8 mha/yr humid tropics Achard et al. (2002), Science 297, 999-1002 • 13 mha/yr globally FAO (2010) Global Forest Resource Assessment Key Findings • http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2010/en/ • Emissions; van der Werf et al, 2009, Nature BiogeoSciences

  21. Photo credit Thomas Faivre-Duboz, modified by Alan Belward • 5.8 mha/yr humid tropics Achard et al. (2002), Science 297, 999-1002 • 13 mha/yr globally FAO (2010) Global Forest Resource Assessment Key Findings • http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2010/en/ • Emissions; van der Werf et al, 2009, Nature BiogeoSciences

  22. Palm Oil • Make-Up • Paint • Cookies • Pet Food • Soap

  23. What Does GRASP Do? • Leverages funding • Scientific publications • Policy & outreach • Trans-boundary collaboration

  24. Kinshasa Declaration signed by 22 great ape range states Over 30 fieldprojects / $3.9 million Last Stand of the Orangutanimpacted policy in UK, Indonesia; enhanced global consumer awareness. “Act Now for Orangutans” campaign reached more than 12 million on-line What Does GRASP Do?

  25. Asking United Nations to declare World Great Ape Day September 9 – Kinshasa Declaration signed International day of recognition What Does GRASP Do?

  26. What Does GRASP Do? • Commitment from UN military to support great ape transfers in East & Central Africa • Military flights • Chimpanzees & gorillas to sanctuaries

  27. Mobile phone application (“APP”) in development with i-Site design in USA Allow public to track specific populations of great apes Weekly updates 4 great apes for pilot NGO partners / donations Launch: Late-2012 What Does GRASP Do?

  28. Buy orangutan-friendly Halloween candy (http://www.cmzoo.org/docs/halloweenGuide2012.pdf) Recycle cell phones, ipods, computers Do not buy greeting cards / goods that portray great apes as “human” Do not support the use of great apes in entertainment What Can You Do?

  29. Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee?

  30. Are You Sure?

  31. Thank You www.un-grasp.org

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