Side Event

CAN GORILLAS SAVE THE EARTH? GREAT APES AS INDICATORS OF BIODIVERSITY HEALTH AND HUMAN WELL-BEING IN CENTRAL AFRICA’S RAINFORESTS

Organizer
Great Apes survival Partnership (GRASP), UNEP

Date and Time
11 October 2012 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 11)

The Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) is the unique alliance of member nations, UN agencies, research institutions, conservation organizations and private supporters that works to conserve great apes in Africa and Asia. By focusing on gorilla conservation in Cameroon, Cong and DR Congo, GRASP and its partners are able to leverage projects that protect vast forest areas, thereby promoting biodiversity, species conservation, human health, environmental stewardship and economic sustainability in a manner that offers new hope for areas that were in steep decline.