SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
Core Funding
Chester Zoo Nigeria Biodiversity Programme (since 2002, including contributions to "African Student Fund"; head of Research & Conservation: Dr Roger Wilkinson; Conservation Officer: Scott Wilson; Director General: Prof Gordon McGregor Reid; from 2010: Dr Mark Pilgrim)
Cooperation and Logistic Support
Nigeria National Park Service (Conservator Generals: Alhaji Lawan B. Marguba, Haruna Tanko Abubakar; Conservator of Parks: Jarafu Mamza, Modu Sherif, Dr Okeyoyin “George” Agboola; Contact officers: Abubakar A. Kaigama, Inwon Fingesi, Yohanna Saidu)
Gashaka Gumti National Park (all former and recent staff on the ground and in the bush; in particular Head of Department of Park Protection and Conservation: Mohammed Umar; Head of Management Information Unit Jonah C. Moses; Range Officers Filinga: George Karngong, Pepeh Kamaya, Mwajim Mbaya, Danjuma Magaji; Technical department: Joseph Kehinde Lawan, Babangida Kawuji; carpenter Aminu “Kano” Ibrahim Tanko; Rangers: Anthony David, Saidu Isa Masabere, Dahiru Lawal; the Jauro and villagers of Gashaka; Headmasters Gashaka Primary School: Mr. Jerry, Bamanga Umaru
Nigerian Conservation Foundation (executive directors: Dr Muhtari Aminu-Kano, Prof Emmanuel Obot; Gashaka Gumti Project Managers: Tirimisiyu Ashimi, Abdullahi N. Zabudum, Faith Ananze; Abba Leuro, Andrew Dunn, Aaron Nicholas, Doris Nyanganji †, Stephen Gawaisa, Salamu Waziri †) (Gashaka Gumti project closed 2008)
WWF-UK (Richard Barnwell, Helen Gardiner, Mark Wright, Callum Rankine) (Nigeria support closed 2007)
Leventis Foundation / Fauna & Flora International (Phil Hall, Tasso Leventis, Barbara Privett)
Federal University of Technology Yola (Prof Callistus Akosim)
Development Corporation Ireland (Russell Hanley, Abuja)
Nigeria Montane Forest Project (Dr Hazel Chapman)
International Institut for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan (Dr Richard Markham, Isabelle Faucher, Taiwo Oviasuyi)
University College London (Department of Anthropology Administrator: Alena Kocourek; until 2009; UCL finances division: Helen West)
Infrastructural Development
in Particular "Power-Island" at Kwano Field Station and Radio Communication Throughout Gashaka-Gumti National Park
Oskar-von-Miller Schule (Horst Hoppe, Karsten Reichart, Markus Engelhardt, Timo König, Martin Münstedt, Stefan Werner, as well as Boris Kraft, Kai von Schumann, Meik Mitter, Martin Wegner, Kadir Dönmez, Thomas Muth)
Bilfinger-Berger, Wiesbaden and Julius-Berger Nigeria, Abuja (Hans Wittmann, Volker Gallitz sen., Reinhard Schmidt-Tuexen, Eleonore Schlueter, Martina Lobenstein, Reinhard Grimpo, Herbert Kloepper, Volker Gallitz jun., Werner Fettinger, Katja Rosenke, and the "Berger Ladies Charity" headed by Irma Hermannsdoerfer)
SMA Kassel (Günther Häckl, Günther Cramer, Werner Reitze, Patrick Mark)
Deutsche EXIDE GmbH
Digital Copyblitz (Adrian Meilinger, Manfred Köhler)
Other companies in and near Kassel / Germany. ABB Stotzkontakt (Michael Hueck), CL Bergmann (Thomas Siebert), EAM Energie AG, Firma Mitter, L&S Landwehr & Schulz (Waldemar Boguslawski), Firma Rittal, Rotary Club Kassel (Norbert Greib), Rotary Klub Hofgeismar-Wolfhagen (Wolfgang Annecke), SAB, Solara (Frank Heise), Stadtwerke Kassel AG, Wago Kontakttechnik (Dieter Muxfeldt)
Individual supporters. Renate and Volker Storch, Armin and Waltraud Sommer, Günter Haaf, Hark Bohm, Susanne Hassenkamp, Dr. Jürgen Volmar (dentistry, Espenau and Holzhausen am Reinhardswald)
Volunteers
Claire Bracebridge (England), Julia Greenslade (England), Judith Bovensiepen (Germany), Jennifer Rogan (Scotland), Asako Saegusa (Japan), Alejandra Pascual-Garrido (Argentina), Maria Susana Garcia (Portugal), Helen Cross (England), Aylin McNamara (England), Aisha Dasgupta (England), Sonja Richter (Austria), Vincent Thuet (France), Daphné Kerhoas-Essens (France), Nienke Alberts (Netherlands), Lauren Adele Holt (England), James Vernon (England), Anna Hopkins (England), James Tallant (UK), Ruth Sharpe (UK), Kit Opie (UK), Rosemary Lodge (UK), Tom Pollard (England), Hsueh Chen (Taiwan), Kerrin Gilbert (USA), Georgia Patey (UK)
GPP Field Assistants and Camp Management
Head FA: Hammaunde Guruza; Senior FA: Felix Vitalis, Halidu Ilyasu (Dan-Azumi); Permanent FA: Bobbo Buba †, Ali Tappare, Maigari Ahmadu, Buba Bello, Zacchariah Dollar, Isaac Timothy, Maikanti Hassan, Yakubu Ahmadu †, Buba Hammaselbe, Haruna Ahmadu; Casual FA: Agnes Bulus, Nuhu Husseini, Musa Basago, Sam Yusufu, Mahmoda Dabo
In Memoriam.
Jeremiah Adanu (1969–2004), Mallam Salamu Waziri (c1945–2007), Doris Nyanganji (c1976–2008), Yakubu Ahmadu (c1967–2009), Bobbo Buba (c1978–2010), Dr Ymke Warren (1970–2010)