History/Background
Ms. Raballand, PPI's president and CCC director, founded Project Primate, Inc. in 1998 in the state of Georgia.
When Ms. Raballand moved back to Africa, PPI incorporation was moved to the state of Illinois, where PPI's secretary
lived, to facilitate administrative work. Project Primate, Inc. has a Guinean affiliate called Primates-Guinée. An
agreement between the local NGO and the Guinean government has been signed, which permits the CCC to operate the
sanctuary and undertake release activities. In accordance with this agreement, the CCC is a project of Primates-Guinée.
The CCC and Primates-Guinée work in close collaboration with the Direction National des Eaux et Forêts (DNEF, the Guinean
government agency within the Ministry of Environment responsible for the protection of forests, the environment, and wildlife)
and in compliance with Guinean laws. The CCC and Primates-Guinée believe that support of the Guinean government is critical
to ensure success of the project. A new ministry was created in 2007 to deal with environment matters, the Ministry of
Environment and Sustainable Development, and the CCC is working closely with this new ministry to help implement its Protected Areas program.
The funders of the CCC are/were:
- The Humane Society of the United States
- The Prince Bernhard Nature Fund
- The Arcus Foundation
- The Edith J. Goode Residuary Trust
- Kislak Foundation
- USAID
- SMD Lero
- The International Primate Protection League
- The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA),
which donated the electrical fence in 2001.
- CCC has also received individual gifts from private donors overseas, as well as SMD Lero.
- The Guinean Agriculture Ministry, through the DNEF, also contributed by
paying half of the CCC's staff salaries until September 2000.
- Fondation Brigitte Bardot
- TUSK
- US Fish and Wildlife
- Great Ape Trust of Iowa
- Columbus Zoo
- Fondation Nature et Decouverte
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