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Declining Great Apes of Central Africa Get New Action Plan for Conservation for the Next Decade

Press release

April 07, 2015
Declining Great Apes of Central Africa Get New Action Plan for Conservation for the Next Decade
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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Tags: Wildlife protection, Chimpanzees, Gorillas


Conservationists Release Manual on Protecting Great Apes in Forest Concessions

Press release

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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Tags: gorillas, Wildlife protection, Chimpanzees, Periphery


New World Heritage Site in Wild Heart of Central Africa

Press release

July 02, 2012
Wildlife rarely respect international borders, particularly when those boundaries cut right through their forest homes. So a new World Heritage Site that spans a swath of three nations in Central Africa will give gorillas, elephants, and chimps a veritable pass as they roam along the Sangha River, between the Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic. The diverse ecosystems of this region will be preserved within the Sangha Tri-National Protected Area (TNS), now a World Herit...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Celebration, Protected areas


Elephants Safe in Congo Park Amidst Slaughter in Surrounding Forests

Press release

June 07, 2012
The loss of 5,000 forest elephants to poachers in northern Republic of Congo over the past five years makes protected areas for Africa’s dwindling wildlife more important than ever, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. Conservationists recommend that guard strength in northern Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, where elephant numbers have remained stable, should be doubled immediately to protect the park’s estimated 2,300 individuals. In addition, protection sh...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Forest elephants, Wildlife protection


Sizing Up Congo’s Silverbacks

Science publication

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


Congo Park Expanded to Protect “Naive” Chimpanzees

Press release

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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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Protected areas, Chimpanzees


Tusk Smuggler Gets Tough Sentence

Press release

August 18, 2011
An ivory trafficker from China is learning a hard lesson in a Congolese prison cell, where he will spend the next four years. His crime was attempting to smuggle ivory to Beijing. The contraband included five elephant tusks and various ivory items, such as chopsticks, carvings, and hankos, which are traditional name seals. When he attempted to board a Kenya Airways flight in January, the authorities stopped him.   The Ministry of Sustainable Development, Forest Economy,...

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Tags: Forest elephants, Wildlife protection, Counter Wildlife Trafficking


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

Science publication

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


Congo Basin Heads of State and Conservation Groups Celebrate 10 Years of Success in Saving World’s Second Largest Rainforest

Press release

September 29, 2009
JOINT PRESS RELEASE : African Wildlife Foundation, Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund     Ongoing Threats include Bushmeat Hunting, Illegal Logging, and Climate Change Washington – September 29, 2009 -- Leaders of the Congo Basin countries and conservation groups are pressing for more attention, funds and technical support to save the world’s second largest rainforest and benefit its population during a Congo...

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Tags: Policy & partnership, Protected areas, Wildlife protection


Motherlode of Gorillas Discovered in Central Africa

Science publication

August 05, 2008
The world’s population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas received a huge boost today when the Wildlife Conservation Society released a census showing massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo. The new census tallied more than 125,000 western gorillas in two adjacent areas in the northern part of the country, covering an area of 18,000 square miles (47,000 square kilometers). Previous estimates from the 1980s placed the entire p...

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Tags: Conservation science, Protected areas, Gorillas


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