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New Analysis Pinpoints Most Important Forests for Biodiversity and Conservation Remaining in Central Africa

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August 11, 2020
New Analysis Pinpoints Most Important Forests for Biodiversity and Conservation Remaining in Central Africa
Sites in Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea identified Analysis combines the most important places for biodiversity with areas where forests are still relatively intact Research will guide conservation efforts to focus on these places, and help forest management, infrastructure, and other land-use planning to avoid impacting biodiversity Read the Study A study by WCS and partners produced new analyses to pinpoint the most ...

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Tags: Conservation science, Forest, Biodiversity


Largest study ever in Western Equatorial Africa shows gorillas in deep trouble

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September 24, 2019
Largest study ever in Western Equatorial Africa shows gorillas in deep trouble
In 2018, scientists from ten different organizations assembled the largest survey dataset ever on western lowland gorillas and central chimpanzees. We collated the information on great apes nests from 59 sites in five countries surveyed over 11 years between 2003 and 2013. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaar2964.full The study indicated that although there were more gorillas than previously published, they were in deep trouble- declining by a shocking 2.7% every year. On t...

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Tags: Conservation science, Protected areas, Gorillas


Study Documents Impacts of Selective Logging and Associated Disturbance on Intact Forest Landscapes and Wildlife of Northern Congo

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July 15, 2019
Study Documents Impacts of Selective Logging and Associated Disturbance on Intact Forest Landscapes and Wildlife of Northern Congo
  Researchers find clear links between logging road incursion into Intact Forest Landscapes and elephant poaching A new study says that the tropical forests of Western Equatorial Africa (WEA) – which include significant stands of Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) – are increasingly coming under pressure from logging, poaching, and associated disturbances. The tropical forests of WEA are comprised of significant stands of IFLs, which are forest and associated mos...

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Tags: Forest, Protected areas, Wildlife protection


Chimps Are Losing Their Culture, Study Says

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March 07, 2019
Chimps Are Losing Their Culture, Study Says
Chimpanzees' complex cultures, including the use of tools and other behaviors, are being lost as human disturbance expands into previously wild areas, says a sweeping new paper published in the journal Science. The ten-year study, led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, spanned 46 locations and 15 countries, providing the most complete description of chimpanzee culture to date. WCS, Lincoln Park Z...

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Tags: Conservation science, Forest, Chimpanzees


Massive Study Across Western Equatorial Africa Finds More Gorillas and Chimpanzees Than Expected, but 80% Are Outside the Safe Havens of Protected Areas

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April 25, 2018
Massive Study Across Western Equatorial Africa Finds More Gorillas and Chimpanzees Than Expected, but 80% Are Outside the Safe Havens of Protected Areas
A WCS-led study estimates that more than 360,000 gorillas and nearly 130,000 chimpanzees still inhabit the forests of Western Equatorial Africa--approximately one third and one tenth more than previously thought Conservationists from several organizations and government agencies gathered and analyzed a decade of data on western lowland gorilla and central chimpanzee populations in the largest ever survey of these great apes Approximately 80 percent of these great apes live outside protected ...

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Tags: gorillas, Conservation science, Chimpanzees


Pangolins at ‘Huge Risk’ as Study Reveals Dramatic Increases in Hunting Across Central Africa

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July 19, 2017
Pangolins at ‘Huge Risk’ as Study Reveals Dramatic Increases in Hunting Across Central Africa
First study of its kind shows true scale of problem facing world’s most illegally traded mammal. Hunting of pangolins, the world’s most illegally traded mammal, increased by a staggering 150 percent in Central African forests from 1970s up to 2014, according to a new study by the University of Sussex, WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), and other groups. The first-ever study of its kind, just published in Conservation Letters, shows the true scale of pangolin exploitation...

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Tags: Conservation science, Pangolins, Counter Wildlife Trafficking


Poaching of old forest elephant matriarchs threatens rainforests

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May 12, 2016
Poaching of old forest elephant matriarchs threatens rainforests
  Elephants – the “forest gardeners”- learn from their mothers how to find food, understand their complex forest home, and interact with other elephants. Scientists warn that killing of the oldest, wisest females – the guardians of their community’s forest and social knowledge- could cause cascading effects on ecosystem integrity Scientists working for the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Stirling, and the Amboseli Trust for Elephan...

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Tags: Forest elephants, Conservation science, Wildlife protection


Adult Male Gorillas Call More During Feeding Than Females, Juveniles

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February 24, 2016
Adult Male Gorillas Call More During Feeding Than Females, Juveniles
Adult male gorillas in the wild ‘sing’ and ‘hum’ more during feeding than their younger or female counterparts, according to a study published today in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Eva Maria Luef and Simone Pika at the Humboldt Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany, and their colleague Thomas Breuer from the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.  To access the study, click here: http://journals.plos.org/plos...

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Tags: gorillas, Conservation science


Sizing Up Congo’s Silverbacks

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May 01, 2012
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but even for gorillas, some traits stand out. A new study conducted in the rainforests of the Republic or Congo shows that female western lowland gorillas seek out bigger mates to father their offspring. Conservationists with WCS and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology spent 12 years studying gorilla mating choices in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. Their findings illuminate an important factor in the evolution of great...

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


WCS Releases First-Ever Landscape-Wide Study of Elephants and Great Apes

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May 06, 2010
Study looked at protected areas and logging concessions in Republic of Congo Results show importance of parks and anti-poaching efforts   The Wildlife Conservation Society announced the results of the first-ever evaluation of a large, “landscape-wide” conservation approach to protect globally important populations of elephants and great apes. The study looked at wildlife populations in northern Republic of Congo over a mosaic of land-use types, including a national par...

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Tags: gorillas, Forest elephants, Conservation science


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