One of the biggest threats to chimpanzees in the wild is the mining of minerals such as coltan, a metallic ore used in mobile phones and other electronic devices. As demand for mobile phones increases, so too does the mining of vital chimpanzee habitat.
Your students can help protect chimpanzees by donating old mobile phones.
During the month of May, Sydney Zoo is challenging schools to collect as many unused phones as possible for recycling.
Mobile phones will then be collected from your school by our partner MobileMuster for recycling. MobileMuster will alert Sydney Zoo of the number of phones each school collects. Funds raised through the recycling of mobile phones goes directly to the Jane Goodall Institute Australia to support the protection of chimpanzees in Burundi.
The school that collect the most phones for recycling will win a FREE Bungarribee Widlife Workshop Incursion with Sydney Zoo.
