Arcus Foundation
The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. Specifically, Arcus works to advance LGBT equality, as well as to conserve and protect the great apes.
Research and Reports
Find Conservation Research and Reports produced by Arcus and our partners
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What We Support
The creation of a more just and humane world, based on diversity, equality, and fundamental respect.
The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing conservation issues. Specifically, Arcus works to conserve and protect the great apes through three program areas:
© Annette L. Lanjouw
Research Highlight
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Eastern Chimpanzee Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan 2010-2020
Arcus grantee Wildlife Conservation Society and International Union for Conservation of Nature announced that nations of East and Central Africa have developed a 10-year action plan to save one of human-kind's closest relative - the eastern chimpanzee - from hunting, habitat loss, disease, and other threats.
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Recent Research and Reports
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Sierra Leone National Chimpanzee Census
The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary’s National Chimpanzee Census report offers hope for the long-term survival of the Western Chimpanzee, one of the most endangered of Africa’s four chimpanzee subspecies, but also highlights the significant threats the species faces in Sierra Leone.
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Linking Conservation and Poverty Alleviation: the case of Great Apes
This report documents current efforts to link great ape conservation and poverty reduction in the African ape range states.
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Development AND Gorillas? Assessing fifteen years of integrated conservation and development in south-western Uganda
Co-authored by Helga Rainer, Great Apes Program officer, new report explores the challenges of integrating development and conservation efforts and the potential benefits of linking local people to resources needing protection.
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Best Practice Guidelines for Great Ape Tourism
Tourism is often proposed as a strategy to fund conservation efforts to protect great apes and their habitats. These strategies promote local communities to participate in and benefit from, conservation activities on behalf of great apes, or as a business. These guidelines have been developed for both existing and potential great ape tourism sites that wish to improve the degree to which their program contributes to the conservation rather than the exploitation of great apes.
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Grants
The Arcus Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that supports organizations around the world working to conserve and protect the great apes.
Awarded Grants
African Conservation Foundation
Washington, DC $95,000
Animal Protection of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM $100,000
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