Earlier in the week, we posted about Handshake co-founder Alasdair Davies’ entry into the Google Global Impact Challenge with a team from Zoological Society of London (ZSL). We are delighted to announce that the team’s project, Digital Eyes and Ears for Wildlife Protection, has been chosen as one of the four winners of £500,000, Chromebooks […]
Continue reading...28. May 2013
Handshake co-founder, Alasdair Davies, is part of a team from Zoological Society of London (ZSL) that has been nominated to win the Google Global Impact Challenge, a competition in which UK non-profits can win £500,000 to further their work. <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/PVuodCfYpX4″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> ZSL’s project, Digital Eyes and Ears for Wildlife Protection, will […]
Continue reading...23. May 2013
Earlier this year, the Great Primate Handshake partnered with Volunteer Forever to offer volunteers a platform through which to raise funds and find out from previous volunteers what they thought of their Handshake experiences. Many of this year’s volunteers have set up Volunteer Forever profiles to fundraise to join their project of choice. Ruth Martin, […]
Continue reading...23. April 2013
In June 2012, not long before we embarked on our expeditions to Kenya and Uganda, the Great Primate Handshake staff had the privilege of taking part in the Bristol Festival of Nature, sharing a stall with our friends from Ape Action Africa The Bristol Festival of Nature is the UK’s largest free natural history event, […]
Continue reading...22. March 2013
Last night Handshake staff were in attendance at an event celebrating the achievements of Size of Wales, who have recently achieved the goal of protecting 2 million hectares of forest. The Great Primate Handshake was among many supporters thanked during the evening and this special film featuring several of the Size of Wales supported projects […]
Continue reading...18. March 2013
The Great Primate Handshake has partnered with Volunteer Forever to offer those taking part in our projects a crowdfunding platform so that they can raise funds to cover trip expenses. Through Volunteer Forever you can build a profile and write a blog documenting your fund-raising journey and encourage donations from those you know, and those […]
Continue reading...1. March 2013
Huge congratulations to Size of Wales, who have raised £2 million to protect 2 million hectares of tropical forest as part of a national response to climate change. Wales is the first country in the world to help protect an area of forest equivalent to its size and have managed to reach this target for […]
Continue reading...26. February 2013
Today sees the release of the first of our project-specific videos from the Uganda 2012 expedition. Focusing on the community and conservation work being carried out in Mabira Forest, the video features Hussein Kato, a forest guide who explains the importance of protecting both the environment and the interests of the people who depend upon […]
Continue reading...16. February 2013
The Great Primate Handshake is excited to announce six new projects for 2013, spanning three countries and creating digital media content for everything from tree-planting projects in coastal Kenya to an ape sanctuary in the Cameroonian forest. With eight expeditions carried out over the last five years, and over twenty organisations supported by our work, […]
Continue reading...14. December 2012
Those of you who followed our progress in Kenya this summer will remember our visit to Bore, a community in the Coastal Province. While we were there, we spent some time at Kundeni Primary School, where we learnt about the difficulties of making government funding stretch to pay teachers, provide uniforms and meals for the […]
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2. June 2013
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