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Chimpanzees combine pant-hoots and calls to form vocal sequences

Chimpanzees combine pant-hoots and calls to form vocal sequences

by ACF | May 22, 2022 | Great Apes, Wildlife News

A major challenge in evolutionary science has been the reconstruction of the evolution of language in the world. Given that language does not fossilise, a key line of research has been focusing on comparing the communication systems of animals with that of humans....
Akashinga, the Brave Ones, an all female anti-poaching ranger unit in Zimbabwe

Akashinga, the Brave Ones, an all female anti-poaching ranger unit in Zimbabwe

by ACF | Mar 22, 2022 | Wildlife News

Akashinga or The Brave Ones, is a conservation anti-poaching unit founded on the principles of women’s empowerment as the main driver for social, economic and environmental change. Despite their worldly anti-poaching popularity, what makes Akashinga tilt the scale of...
Elephant ivory: DNA analysis offers clearest insight yet into illegal trafficking networks

Elephant ivory: DNA analysis offers clearest insight yet into illegal trafficking networks

by ACF | Mar 8, 2022 | Elephants, Wildlife News

Poaching rare wildlife for teeth, tusks, fur, horns and other body parts is a crime which threatens many species with extinction, but the evidence which could incriminate traffickers is often difficult to access, hard to interpret, or piecemeal. To discover more about...
Community Camera Trapping programme demonstrates potential for wildlife conservation in areas of armed conflict

Community Camera Trapping programme demonstrates potential for wildlife conservation in areas of armed conflict

by ACF | Dec 15, 2021 | ACF News, Great Apes

In one of the first studies of its kind, our innovative Community Camera Trapping Programme demonstrates how local communities monitor their own wildlife populations through camera traps. Our team is using camera trap distance sampling to develop conservation...
Mitigating Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gorilla Conservation: Lessons From Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

Mitigating Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gorilla Conservation: Lessons From Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

by ACF | Sep 10, 2021 | Corona virus, Great Apes, Wildlife News

The COVID-19 pandemic, affecting all countries, with millions of cases and deaths, and economic disruptions due to lockdowns, also threatens the health and conservation of endangered mountain gorillas. For example, increased poaching due to absence of tourism income,...
Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants, study finds

Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants, study finds

by ACF | Aug 9, 2021 | Wildlife News

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered evidence that giraffes are a highly socially complex species. Traditionally, giraffes were thought to have little or no social structure, and only fleeting, weak relationships. However in the last ten years,...
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