Doug Cress is leaving his job of Executive Director of PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance (he had been on the post since 2002) to lead the United Nation’s project GRASP – Great Apes Survival Partnership,  a world wide programme for the protection and survival of great primates.

Before PASA, which gave him a huge notoriety in the area of great primates’ protection, Doug Cress worked as Executive Director of GAP Project in United States. We started our work with GAP a little bit before Doug started his and we could see the extraordinary work he developed in GAP, helping to promote the project in all continents.

Now, in his new job, he will be a great reinforcement in the group of people who involved in the fight for the defense of great primates in the world. In his important position in United Nations, Doug will be able to collaborate even more with the struggle for the basic rights of these species in the planet.

We congratulate United Nations for having chosen Doug, as he could not be more adequate for this task.

PASA chose Anne Warner to serve as interim executive director. She was most recently the conservation manager for the Oregon Zoo. Prior to that, she worked as the director of Conservation and Education at the Oakland Zoo, and serves on the steering committee of Zoos and Aquariums Committed to Conservation (ZACC). Warner has also traveled to field sites in Uganda, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Kenya, and served two terms on the steering committee of the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force (BCTF).

In 2006, Warner helped organize the International Primatological Society (IPS) Congress in Uganda.

Doug knows that, as always, can count with GAP Project, its members and supporters, to help him in the fight of the defense of great primates in the world.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian
President, GAP Project International