Development through its support to Makerere University Faculty of Forestry and Nature
Conservation for funding from 1997 to 2005. The National Geographic Society, through
its Committee for Research and Exploration, has assisted with the funding of our chim-
panzee studies down the years, and for that I am hugely grateful; it has helped to fund
demographic monitoring of the Sonso community, as well as research in the fields of
reproduction, phytochemistry of food choices and genetics. The Rainforest Action
Fund, the International Primate Protection League, the British Council, the Bristol and
West of England Zoological Society, the Percy Sladen Trust, the British Ecological
Society and the Leakey Foundation have all provided much needed grant support. The
US Agency for International Development helped us in the early days with funds to
enable us to renovate and, where necessary, rebuild our camp. Conservation
International, through its Margot Marsh Foundation, and the WildiZe Foundation, have
assisted with much needed funding. The American Society of Primatologists provided
funds to Janette Wallis to enable her to begin the Kasokwa project. The International
Fund for Animal Welfare, Cleveland Zoological Society and Oakland Zoo have given us
funds for staff development, snare removal, two forest guards at Kasokwa, student
scholarships and community education. St Andrew’s Church in Alfriston (and in partic-
ular the rector, Frank Fox-Wilson) have helped raise funds for our staff housing project,
Alfriston Women’s Institute has provided a bursary for further education for girl
students and Alfriston Primary School has helped the primary school at Nyabyeya.
Oxford University gave me a secure base to work from. Geoffrey Harrison, Head of the
Institute of Biological Anthropology, my department at Oxford, was extremely generous
at all times in support of the Project; I am deeply grateful to him for his unstinting help
and encouragement.
The Budongo Forest Project, at the time of writing, looks forward to closer coopera-
tion with the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, and with the Scottish Primate
Research Group, in particular the Department of Psychology at St Andrews University.
Individuals who have given to BFP, emotionally and in other ways, include Jo
Thompson, Siddhartha Singh, Liz Rogers, Jim and Sandy Paterson, Beatrice Hahn,
Chris Fairgrieve, and all the others who have provided items small and large and support
of so many kinds for the BFP and its staff.
A big thankyou also to Andrew Brownlow and Nick Newton-Fisher who have created
and kept up to date the truly excellent website for the Budongo Forest Project,
http://www.budongo.org.
And finally I thank the readers of my initial proposal for this book, who made valuable
comments, my editors at Oxford University Press, Ian Sherman, Abbie Headon and
Anita Petrie for their help and patience, and Alison Jolly who wisely suggested that
I change the title of Chapter 10 from ‘The Human Backdrop’ to ‘The Human
Foreground’ — an insightful suggestion if ever there was one.
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