The Gorilla Organization works internationally to protect the world’s last remaining gorillas in their natural habitat in central Africa.

Our award winning, community-based approach to conservation promotes sustainable livelihoods, nurtures young conservationists of the future and empowers local people to tackle the main threats to the gorillas’ survival. Threats which could wipe out the gorilla population in decades if left unchecked.

In the past few years The Gorilla Organization has:

1. Planted more than 2 million trees to protect and re-forest the gorilla habitat
2. Introduced fuel-efficient stoves that use up to 75% less firewood and charcoal from the gorilla forest
3. Helped indigenous Batwa pygmies develop sustainable livelihoods outside the gorilla habitat
4. Set up income generating projects for beekeepers and livestock breeders
5. Saved an isolated population of gorillas in eastern Congo from almost certain extinction

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1. Trained more than 15,000 local farmers in sustainable organic agriculture to dramatically reduce reliance on the gorilla habitat for farmland and resources
2. Set up more than 400 wildlife clubs in African schools and educated thousands more people through our environment radio programme Cosmos Notre Monde
3. Helped more than 2,000 people set up eco-friendly businesses through micro-finance
4. Supported wildlife rangers through more than 15 years of war in central Africa