On August 16th, an expedition composed by ten volunteers of GAP Project Spain with the leadership of Paco Cuellar, International Director of GAP Project in Europe, will leave Madrid to go to Senegal, to meet the primatologist Jill Pruetz and her advanced group at a protect area called Fongoli, where some groups of chimpanzees from the savannah live in freedom.

According to Pedro Pozas Terrados, Executive Director of GAP Project in Spain, “the mission of this expedition is to create a new way to fight in the African continent and show to the village dwellers, who live together with their brothers primates, that they are not alone and can count on us whenever they need.” At the same time, according to Pedro, “it will allow the implementation of ways of communication with the local population and will help them on the awereness work of preservation of the great primates habitat.”