About GAFI
The Great Apes Film Initiative, (GAFI) is a Non profit organisation created by Madelaine Westwood of Nutshell Productions in collaboration with GRASP and Filmmakers For Conservation . Using the great apes as flagship species, GAFI has been highly successful in using the medium of film as an effective conservation tool for instigating measurable and sustainable change in both local communities and their governments.
“Protecting great apes and their environment
through the power of film and television”
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GAFI has taken Patrick Rouxel’s film ‘Losing Tomorrow’ on Roadshows throughout SE Asia to create awareness of deforestation, palm oil plantations and support local solutions. ‘Dear Mr President’ was created at the request of local communities who wanted to present the issues to their President
In 15 years alone it is highly possible that we will live in a world without gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos. Escalating demands on the critical habitats of great apes from humans has placed tremendous pressure on these delicate forest ecosystems, resulting in not only a severe decline of great ape populations, but also a negative impact on the livelihoods of the millions of people who depend on these forests.
There has never been a greater
urgency to address this current crisis!
Many thanks to Wildlife-film.com for awarding GAFI free full membership!
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