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Entries for 'Conservation science'
August 11, 2020
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
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A study by WCS and partners produced new analyses to pinpoint the most ...
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April 25, 2018
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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July 19, 2017
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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May 12, 2016
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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February 24, 2016
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.
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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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