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Study: Female Monkeys Use Males as “Hired Guns” for Defense Against Predators

Science publication

March 31, 2021
Study: Female Monkeys Use Males as “Hired Guns” for Defense Against Predators
  Female putty-nosed monkeys use calls just to recruit males when certain predators are detected Results suggest that different “dialects” exist among different populations of monkeys Images captions, and audio files   Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Congo Program and the Nouabalé-Ndoki Foundation found that female putty-nosed monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) use males as “hired guns” to defend from predators ...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Conservation science, Biodiversity


New Endangered and Critically Endangered status for African elephants

Press release

March 25, 2021
New Endangered and Critically Endangered status for African elephants
The overall declining trend of both African elephant species calls for increased support by donors, governments of the elephant range states, and the international community to ensure that elephant populations start to stabilize and even begin a route to recovery. The African savannah elephant and the forest elephant have now been classified as Endangered and Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This comes after a recent decision by the African Elephant Speciali...

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Tags: Conservation science, Forest elephants, Wildlife protection


Empowering women through tourism development

News

March 08, 2021
Empowering women through tourism development
‘Maman’ Saida Nola, proud owner of one of the only restaurants in Bomassa, a remote village at the entrance of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo ©N.Radford/WCS A new sound can be heard ringing out across the Sangha River in the rainforests of northern Congo—the clinking of cups and cutlery at Saida Nola’s new restaurant. ‘Maman Saida’ as she is affectionately known in Bomassa village started her restaurant, ‘La Main de Dieu’, ...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Community conservation, Tourism