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(Ape Alliance & WSPA Report)The Ape Alliance, funded by WSPA, has recently completed a review of bushmeat related activities worldwide. The final report (5MB) is now on-line. This pdf file does not include the detailed appendices, but these are available on the Ape Alliance site, www.4apes.com/bushmeat. BCTF is acknowledged in the paper for its assistance in ...
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Summarized from two reports to BCTF, Extracting Hope for Bushmeat and Timber Certification, by Rina Aviram, Margot Bass, and Keri Parker. For the full reports, please visit
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If the usual threats of poaching and habitat loss weren't enough, gorillas face the added danger of a deadly disease that has been surging through their ranks. The highly-infectious Ebola virus has decimated huge swaths of the already diminished western lowland gorilla population. Scientists are in a race against time to protect these animals from the disease. Western lowland ...
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With just 300 individuals left in the wild, Cross River gorillas have found new conservation support from the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria, the only two countries where these great apes live.Representatives from the two nations agreed last week to improve trans-boundary cooperation to protect the critically endangered species, as well as other endangered wildlife.The ...
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Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says. The declines in Indonesia and Malaysia since 2004 are mostly because of illegal logging and the expansion of palm oil plantations. The survey found the orangutan population on ...
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Scientists, who thought they were fighting a losing battle to protect the gorillas of central Africa, report a rare piece of good news. They have taken a new census of western lowland gorillas in the Republic of Congo, and say they found more than 125,000 -- nearly double what they thought were still living in the Congo and seven surrounding countries.
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Columbus Zoo Develops a book for Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary and the Children of CongoBy Rebecca Rose, Field Conservation Director, Columbus ZooIn collaboration with Les Amies des Bonobos du Congo (The Friends of Bonobos of Congo), the Columbus Zoo is developing a children’s book entitled Protegez la faune et la flore precieuses du Congo ...
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Over the period 5-9 September 2005, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN-convened Intergovernmental Meeting on Great Apes exchanged information, agreed on action-oriented commitments to ensure the long-term survival of the four great apes and their habitat, and adopted key documents, including the Kinshasa Declaration.
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As the bushmeat crisis continues to worsen, and as monkeys and great apes continue to suffer population declines, the primatology community needs increased capacity to address these problems. In June 2006, two special sessions on bushmeat were held in conjunction with the biannual congress of the International Primatological Society (IPS), in Entebbe, Uganda. This excellent opportunity ...
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On 23 June 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, held a hearing on H.R. 2693, the Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2005. BCTF helped several members prepare testimony for this hearing by providing great ape population statistics, threat maps, and evidence of decline among species and subspecies in Africa, as well ...
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On Wednesday, the Spanish Parliament called on Spain to protect the great ape’s right to life and freedom. Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Ape Project called it an “historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades.” The Project works to remove the great ape “from the category of mere ...
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Conservationists have discovered "surprisingly large populations" of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia.Surveys by scientists with the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Cambodian government counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs and 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia's Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area. ...
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April 23, 2008 April 23, 2008 - Apes are on the verge of extinction due to extreme poaching for bush meat and their global demand to be used for scientific research, but there are initiatives to save the endangered species. There are increasingly necessitated efforts to help protect the great endangered chimpanzees and gorillas ...
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May 2003 By Christine Wolf, Director of Government and International Affairs, The Fund for Animals The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) governs the trade of certain wildlife species amongst its 163 member nations. Primates are an important focus of CITES, specifically as it relates to orphans ...
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September 2003 Conservation efforts in Central and West Africa are being highlighted by design and by default, at this year’s Wildlife Film Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 22-27 September. Two bushmeat films and the IMAX special “Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees” are being honored, and a special ...
