Bonobos need your love this Valentine's Day! These compassionate, peaceful great
apes are still struggling for survival in many areas of their habitat -- and they
need our help now more than ever! Hunting and habitat destruction, primarily from
logging, continue to threaten bonobos and their rainforest home.
Show someone special how much you care by adopting a bonobo in their name. Your
contribution will go directly toward efforts to create new protected areas to safeguard
bonobos, to rescue bonobos that have been orphaned or captured, and to support dedicated
eco-guards and monitoring teams
Bonobos
are humankind's closest relatives, along with chimpanzees, yet most people don't even know that bonobos exist! They live only in one country: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Bonobos were last great ape species to be discovered, and could be the first to go extinct if we do not act quickly to save them and their rainforest home. Bonobos stand apart from the other great apes in fascinating and important ways. But perhaps the most compelling aspect of bonobos is their society
