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WHAT WE DO
Chubby Gorilla® has been producing quality packaging for customers in over 100 countries. We consider our impact on people and the planet in everything we do. We continue to ask ourselves how we can make Chubby Gorilla® an even greater force for good in the world. To start we strive to support a balance of quality engineered, sustainable, and regulated products worthy of our brand and beneficial to our customers.
Through our membership with Ecologi’s Climate Positive Workforce we are helping to offset our employee’s carbon footprint and support climate positive projects.
Finally, since we are Chubby Gorilla®, we feel it is only right to support and protect our name sake. We’ve partnered with Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE), to provide care for rescued Grauer’s gorillas and work alongside the Congolese community to promote the conservation of wild gorillas and their habitat. With these efforts, it will help us towards our goal of social responsibility and sustainability.
OUR ADOPTED GORILLAS
PINGA
Pinga was confiscated in 2004 in a small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Pinga first lived for several years in a small sanctuary with six other gorilla orphans in Rwanda. In 2011 this group was transported by helicopter to GRACE. GRACE had just been established at that time, specifically for Grauer gorillas. Immediately upon arrival, Pinga took on the role of alpha lady, which was immediately accepted by the other gorillas. Until 2017, she was the tough leader of the group! Kighoma (he is in the guardian program as well) has now taken over this role from her. In the wild, the leader of the group usually is a silverback. But because there was no adult gorilla man in the group, Pinga had temporarily taken on this role. And she was a great leader!
KIGHOMA
Kighoma was transferred to GRACE in 2010. The small gorilla orphan was held in the city of Buniatenge in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kighoma was in the hands of a rebel group, something that happens frequently. Wild animals are used as mascots by the rebels. Kighoma was eventually saved by a man named Kighoma, so it is also immediately clear whom this gorilla owes his name to!