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Throughout most of November 2010, Madelaine Westwood, GAFI’s Director, led the start of the first conservation education roadshow to use the innovative Pedal Power Cinema. With colleagues from The Gorilla Organisation, Madelaine travelled to remote areas of Southern Uganda, close to one of the remaining habitats of the mountain gorilla. In this first stage, the … Continue reading »

GAFI’s Innovative Pedal-Powered Cinema roadshows are making a huge difference to the number of people who have access to our powerful films.

Wild chimps outwit human hunters Article courtesy of the BBC By Matt Walker Editor, Earth News Watch the video at http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8962000/8962747.stm Wild chimpanzees are learning how to outwit human hunters. Across Africa, people often lay snare traps to catch bushmeat, killing or injuring chimps and other wildlife. But a few chimps living in the rainforests … Continue reading »

Madelaine Awarded Wingate Scholarship Prestigious Award Will Fund Research into Roadshow Effectiveness GAFI is delighted to announce that Madelaine Westwood, GAFI’s director, has been awarded a scholarship from the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. These scholarships are awarded anually to “outstanding individuals of great potential or proven excellence who need financial support to undertake creative or original work of intellectual, scientific, … Continue reading »

Gorilla Project Pedals Forward GAFI’s work to bring awareness of mountain gorillas to human populations in Uganda has received a huge boost. The pedal-powered roadshow project has received full funding with €10,000 awarded from the Van Tienhoven Foundation for International Nature Protection with a further €10,000 donated by a donor in the USA. Since 2006, … Continue reading »

12th/13th June 2010 At this year’s Bristol Festival of Nature, GAFI and the Ape Alliance seized a great opportunity to raise awareness of ape conservation and the profile our work. Sharing a stand, we were very busy running an ape colouring/drawing competition for children, whilst volunteers, dressed as gorillas and orangutans, rode electric scooters loaned for the event from our sponsor http://www.i-scoot.co.uk/.  We … Continue reading »

5th June 2010 At the Stoud Festival of Nature GAFI, in association with the Ape Alliance, used a 14ft Yurt to house a pedal-powered cinema, with members of the public volunteering to provide power! We showed films from the GAFI library such as “Green” www.greenthefilm.com/, as well as GAFI reports from the field and animated short conservation films.  There was also … Continue reading »

On Wednesday 10th March 2010, Oxford Brookes University kindly came to our rescue and provided an excellent venue at short notice for our screening, in association with the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS), of Patrick Rouxel’s ‘Losing Tomorrow’, a poetical film on the habitat of orangutans and an insight into the logging industry in Indonesia. Screened … Continue reading »