Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP), established in 2001, aims to conserve the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans) and their habitat primarily forested tropical ecosystems that provide important services to humanity, through pro-poor conservation and sustainable development strategies. GRASP is a UNEP and UNESCO-led World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Type II Partnership bringing together all the principal institutional actors in great ape conservation United Nations agencies, biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements, great ape range state and donor governments, non-governmental organizations, scientists, local communities and the private sector.