Our Partners

Sponsors and Supporters

 

Africa Adventure Touristik
www.AAT-Gorilla.com

Africa Adventure Touristik supported us in various ways and helped us to establish our storage for equipment.

 
 

Apenheul
www.apenheul.nl

With the Apenheul Primate Conservation Trust the primate park Apenheul has been supporting our work for many years - for example with donations that we used to buy ranger equipment.

 
 

Colibri UmweltReisen
www.berggorillas.de

Colibri UmweltReisen is specialized in eco-tourism and offers tours to the mountain gorillas. The company supports our work by donating a certain percentage of the costs for each person on a gorilla tour.

 
 

DAS Air Cargo
www.dasair.com

DAS Air Cargo supported us on several occasions with transports on their planes.

 
 

druckpartner Druck - und Medienhaus GmbH
www.druck-partner.de

The printing company druckpartner supports species conservation and is engaged to "press" for saving the gorillas.
druckpartner is also a partner of the Mondberge-Projekt.

 
 

FirstTarget
www.firsttarget.de

FirstTarget developed and designed our original German website and covered the cost for webhosting for many years.

 
 

Gorilla Haven
www.gorilla-haven.org

Gorilla Haven's mission is: to help make every captive gorilla's life as enriched and natural as possible through husbandry and research and to promote education about gorilla conservation in zoos and the wild.

 
 

Great Ape Trust of Iowa
www.greatapetrust.org

The Great Ape Trust of Iowa manages a research center in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, concerned with great ape studies; it also supports education and great ape conservation. With a GAT donation we sent warm and rainproof clothes to Rwandan rangers.

 
 

M+R Spedag Group
www.mrspedag.com

M+R Spedag Group is a leading, independent Swiss logistics company. The group is operational in 23 countries with its own companies, for example in eastern Africa, where the company is working as "Spedag East Africa" in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania ynd Rwanda.

 
 

Nouvelles Approches
www.nouvellesapproches.org

Nouvelles Approches supports several conservation projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The organisation has translated our Gorilla Journal to French for many years.

 
 

Margarete Steiff GmbH
www.steiff.de

Part of the proceeds from the sale of the plush gorilla "Mary Zwo" is used to provide uniforms, gumboots and sweaters to the rangers of the Congolese Virunga National Park.

 
 

Volcanoes Safaris
www.volcanoessafaris.com

Volcanoes Safaris is a unique safari company that began in the very heart of Africa - in Uganda - in 1997. Today Volcanoes is the premier safari company in the region and the Number 1 gorilla safari company in the world.

 
 

La vallée des singes
www.la-vallee-des singes.fr

The French zoo La vallée des singes with his "Conservatoire pour la protection des primates" provided funds for a motorcycle that will help to save the Sarambwe Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Moreover, they provide help in translating the Gorilla Journal.

 
 

Wilhelma
www.wilhelma.de

The Stuttgart Zoological-Botanical Garden created, together with Iris Weiche from B&RD, a bushmeat exhibition in 2000 and supported us in various respects during the bushmeat campaign, again in 2007, and in 2009 with the proceeds from mobile phone recycling.

 
 

Zoologischer Garten Köln
www.zoo-koeln.de

On several occasions, especially in connection with the Bushmeat Campaign, the Cologne Zoo raised funds for us. Moreover, the zoo informed visitors about our work in the "Zoomobil".

 

Cooperation Partners

 

Ape Alliance
www.4apes.com

We are a member of the Ape Alliance, a coalition of great ape protection organisations. One of the most important aims is the fight against the killing of great apes for their meat.

 
 

Conservation Through Public Health
www.ctph.org

The mission of this Ugandan NGO is to promote conservation and public health by improving primary health care to people and animals in and around protected areas in Africa. We supported CTPH with technical equipment.

 
 

European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
www.eaza.net - Bushmeat Exhibition

We have been cooperating with EAZA since 2000 in the bushmeat campaign. During that campaign, substantial funds were raised too; a part of these donations supported our activities against the bushmeat trade.

 
 

Frankfurt Zoological Society
www.zgf.de

The Frankfurt Zoological Society is an advocate of a world in which biological diversity is appreciated as the basis of all life and as a fundamental value. We are especially cooperating in one of FZS's projects, the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 
 

Gorillas in the Soup - Bushmeat Exhibition
For the Bushmeat Exhibition in 2000 many organizations cooperated: introduction to the collaborators - contact
zoos that showed the exhibition and partly supported us directly

 
 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit
www.gtz.de

The GTZ (Society for Technical Co-operation) is the developmental aid organisation of the German government. We cooperated with the GTZ in various respects, especially in the conservation of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park.

 
 

Great Ape Survival Project
www.unep.org/grasp

GrASP is an UNEP (UN Environment Programme) initiative for the conservation of the great apes. The Berggorilla & Regenwald Direkthilfe is an official partner of GrASP.

 
 

Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature
www.iccnrdc.cd

Authority for nature conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

 
 

International Gorilla Conservation Programme
www.mountaingorillas.org

The IGCP is a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It supports mountain gorilla conservation projects in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda. We have worked together with IGCP in various activities.

 
 

Christian Kaiser
www.kaiser-photography.de

The photographer Christian Kaiser has permitted us to use many of his gorilla photos as well as photos documenting gorilla conservation.

 
 

Lukuru Wildlife Research Project
http://members.aol.com/jat434

The Lukuru Project works to conserve wildlife, especially the bonobo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We cooperate to further information about and support to the nationals parks of Congo, especially Kahuzi-Biega and Maiko.

 
 

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Landesamt für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Geologie

http://www.lung.mv-regierung.de

The environment and nature conservation authority of the German federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern supports our mobile phone recycling activities.

 
 

Mondberge
http://www.mondberge.com

"Mondberge" is a German community internet platform. With their contents the produce a book that also supports one of our gorilla conservation projects.

 
 

Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
http://gorilladoctors.org

The gorilla doctors are occupied with mountain gorilla health. Moreover, their employee health programme aims at preventing disease transmission to the gorillas by humans. We support the MGVP's employee health programme in Kahuzi-Biega.

 
 

Pro Wildlife
http://www.prowildlife.de

Pro Wildlife fights for the conservation of endangered species. We cooperate in certain projects.

 
 

Rettet den Drill
www.rettet-den-drill.de

Since 1993 Rettet den Drill supports the organisation Pandrillus, which was founded by the American biologists Liza Gadsby and Peter Jenkins in Nigeria. Pandrillus cares for confiscated drills that will be rehabilitated in the wild.

 
 

Rettet den Regenwald
www.regenwald.org

Rettet den Regenwald supports environmental groups and conservation projects in Middle and South America, Asia and Africa - and the organisation supports worldwide informational exchange with many other conservation groups including us.

 
 

Rhino Fund Uganda
www.rhinofund.org

Rhino Fund Uganda is establishing a breeding sanctuary with the eventual goal to bring back the rhino to Uganda's protected areas after its extinction there in the 1980s.

 
 

Wildlife Conservation Society
www.wcs.org

We worked together with the Wildlife Conservation Society several times, first in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and more recently in the Cross River area in Nigeria and Cameroon.

 
 

Zoo Rostock
www.zoo-rostock.de

 
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