• Ideas
• Volunteers
• Raising Awareness
• Concern for Individual Great Apes
• Raising Funds
• Specific Areas of Concern

Above all, the GAP needs people with the ideas, energy and skills necessary to promote the Project. If you have a proposal you want to make, please write it down in as clear and brief a form as you can, and either post it to your local/national GAP coordinator or GAP - International. A form for you to fill out to send is provided here. Alternatively you can e-mail your idea to GAP - International.

• The GAP needs volunteers to promote the Project, to run local groups, to provide financial support and to run fund-raising activities.
• We need people with a variety of talents, including legal expertise, Public Relations skills, secretarial abilities, and teaching talent.
• We need to establish contacts with potential GAP supporters, legislators, lawyers, media workers, scientists, academics, and anyone else who might be of assistance.
• We need people with legal expertise to join our special section for lawyers who support the GAP.

One of the primary contributions that individual supporters and local groups can make is to spread the word -- making people aware of the Project, and getting them to discuss it and think about it.

• Get people to read the Declaration on Great Apes, and other texts about the GAP, and collect the signatures of those who support the Declaration. We have signatory sheets available; the Declaration can also be signed On-line. Ask signatories if they want to work actively for the GAP.
• Assemble a collection of GAP-related books, leaflets and other display material. Set up GAP tables at local events and be prepared to discuss the GAP.
• Arrange showings of videos of the ABC-20/20 Booee programme, The Great Ape Trial, the Bushmeat tapes, Humans And Animals: Bridging The Gap, language-learning studies....
• Arrange talks or hold meetings to present and discuss the GAP. Contact your GAP coordinator to see if a guest speaker is available.
• Develop the ability to give introductory talks on the GAP, perhaps with the aid of videos or slides. Then give talks at local schools, clubs, libraries, etc.
• Arrange 'Interspecies Workshops'. Get people talking about what they know, or what they think they know, about our great ape peers and other animals. Talk about personal, 'landmark' experiences of interactions with other animals. (Training may soon be available for running these workshops.)
• Get local groups to read GAP-related books and discuss them.
• Order GAP-related books and videos through your local library.
• Get local journalists to do pieces on GAP-related issues.

Before you act, discuss proposed activities with your local or national coordinator. Talk to your national coordinator before contacting other advocacy groups. If there is no national co-ordinator in your country, contact the office of GAP - International.

• Report on any nonhuman great apes living near you. Compile biographies of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans in zoos, laboratories or private facilities. Give the information to your local or national GAP coordinator. Try to keep this information up-to-date; report changes in conditions, births, deaths, etc.
• Monitor the media for GAP-related news reports and send them to GAP - International.
• Join GAP campaigns for the release of individual great apes. By signing up to the GAP Extra! news bulletins we will periodically send you information and requests for a call to action.

The GAP needs cash to run its office and activities, to arrange events and to produce GAP materials.

• Sell copies of the GAP book, and other related literature.
• Sell GAP T-shirts, or any other GAP merchandise you can get/create.
• Hold fund-raising events.
• Give out donation slips.
• Inform GAP about potential sponsors (private persons or companies) who might be better approached by the GAP Board.
• Sell and/or produce GAP posters. (Discuss designs with your coordinator beforehand.)

Among our special areas of practical concern are:

• 'The Bushmeat Trade' -- The killings of thousands of chimpanzees and gorillas every year for meat in West and Central Africa.
• The plight of chimpanzees, in particular, in laboratories.
• The confinement and suffering of all captive nonhuman great apes.