Great Apes Summit

I am super excited to announce that in just a few weeks' time, I will be attending the Great Apes Summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming! 

This incredible event was sponsored by the UN's GRASP (Great Apes Survival Partnership) Program and the Arcus Foundation (a major funder of nonprofits that benefit great apes, amongst other things). It will be two days of presentations and discussions of many, many topics relevant to Monkey Business, including illegal trading, captive apes, conservation, and ecotourism...followed by another two days that merge with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and continue with meetings about topics such as great apes and the law, and the future of great ape conservation.

I will have a table at which to promote and sell Monkey Business, so I've been busy getting things together to make this happen.

There will be guest speakers and panel experts, many of whom I look up to and many of whom (unsurprisingly) are in Monkey Business - folks like Sarah Baeckler Davis of the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance, Richard Wrangham, Jane Goodall (who needs little introduction and is a legend in this field), and representatives from PETA, CITES, Save The Chimps, The Humane Society, and Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International...I could keep listing the names.

But I won't.

Suffice to say, I CANNOT WAIT. I cannot wait to be surrounded by so many people who feel the same way I do about these incredible creatures. I cannot wait to share my book with people who will already "get" the topic and understand why I felt it so necessary to write this book. I cannot wait to learn from them and be a part of this amazing conference that will only serve to improve the lives of great apes, both in captivity and in the wild.