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- Gishwati Area Conservation Program is a forest restoration and chimpanzee conservation effort Great Ape Trust manages in Rwanda.
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News Releases

Think of this as the news department of Great Ape Trust. Current and archive news releases about our mission, scientific research and conservation initiatives are located here and provide a historical perspective about our organization.

2012

Great Ape Trust and new Bonobo Hope team up to save the bonobos 01/09/2012

2011

Great Ape Trust Names Interim Director 12/20/2011
Great Ape Trust Expands Board, Charts Course for 2012 12/13/2011
Gishwati Forest to Become Rwanda National Park, Great Ape Trust Concludes Successful Initiative 12/12/2011
Drake University has Key Role in Growing Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest 11/17/2011
Great Ape Trust Scientist to Lecture at Butler University 10/27/2011
Ecotourism program unveiled for Rwanda's Forest of Hope 10/18/2011
60 Minutes Australia: "Talk to the Animals" 10/17/2011
Autism In Another Ape 09/20/2011
Rwandan Students Tour Gishwati Forest 09/19/2011
Great Ape Trust Begins Fundraising Campaign 08/25/2011

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Great Ape Trust is a scientific research facility in Des Moines, Iowa, dedicated to understanding the origins and future of culture, language, tools and intelligence, and to the preservation of endangered great apes in their natural habitats. Announced in 2002 and receiving its first ape residents in 2004, Great Ape Trust is home to a colony of seven bonobos involved in noninvasive interdisciplinary studies of their cognitive and communicative capabilities, and to two orangutans.

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