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Entries for ' Chimpanzees'
June 07, 2021
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A new study published in the journal Diversity and Distributions predicts massive range declines of Africa’s great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos – due to the impacts of climate change, land-use changes and human population growth.
For their analysis, the authors compiled information on African ape occurrence held in the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S. database, a repository that includes a remarkable amount of information on population stat...
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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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April 07, 2015
National parks and reserves in six range countries protect only 21 percent of western lowland gorillas and central chimpanzees
Hunting, habitat loss, and disease are the biggest threats to African great apes
Conservationists identify 18 priority landscapes for continued survival of great apes in the region
Action plan calls for improved law enforcement, more effective management of great ape habitat outside of protected areas, better national land-use planning, and conservation advocacy fo...
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May 21, 2013
A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) highlights the plight of great apes in the forest concessions of Central Africa and recommends actions to improve protection for gorillas and chimpanzees in these mixed-used landscapes, according to authors from the Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, IUCN, Lincoln Park Zoo and Washington University.
While most conservation efforts are focused on protecting great apes and other species in Central Africa’s protecte...
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February 16, 2012
The Republic of Congo has formally expanded Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to protect an increasingly rare treasure: one of Africa’s most pristine forests and a population of “naive” chimpanzees with so little exposure to humans that the curious apes investigate the conservationists who study them rather than run away.
Known as the Goualougo Triangle, the 100-plus square-mile dense swamp forest and its unique great ape population was first reported in 1989 by WCS conservationi...
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