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Dear all, The Bulindi Chimpanzee & Community Project (established in 2014 by Matt McLennan) has been shortlisted for a prestigious European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) environmental grant to increase the reach of the project and conserve additional groups of chimpanzees and their habitat, including an extensive tree planting programme - planting 600,000 trees, for reforestation, woodlots and coffee as a ‘chimp friendly’ cash crop to boost local incomes - and to develop an ethical ecotourism programme as a template for the region. The award is worth €28,000 to the BCCP project. The public now have the chance to vote for the selected projects. There are currently just 24 votes between first and second place!!! *To vote for this project please visit: bit.ly/VoteForChimpConservation <http://bit.ly/VoteForChimpConservation> and vote for the Habitat Restoration option (we are third project down). Voting ends on Wednesday 18th October at 1100 GMT.* Many thanks, Jacqueline -- To find out more and to support the Bulindi Chimpanzees, please visit - www.bulindichimpanzees.co.uk *4 - 18 October 2017*: The Bulindi Chimpanzee & Community Project have been shortlisted for an EOCA grant (for reforestation, alternative livelihood coffee farming, energy saving stoves, and an ecotourism feasibility study), and it's now gone to a public vote! Please vote for our *Habitat Restoration and Ecotourism Project for Chimpanzees, Uganda* - please visit http://bit.ly/VoteForBulindiChimps (it's the third project down).