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Keep your distance: Selfies, gorilla tourism and the risks of COVID-19 transmission

Keep your distance: Selfies, gorilla tourism and the risks of COVID-19 transmission

by ACF | Feb 18, 2021 | Conservation Threats, Corona virus, Great Apes, Wildlife News

Tourists could be spreading the virus causing COVID-19 to wild mountain gorillas by taking selfies with the animals without following precautions. Researchers from Oxford Brookes University examined 858 photos posted on Instagram from 2013-2019 under two hashtags...
Cameroon government cancels logging concession that threatens wildlife in virgin rainforest

Cameroon government cancels logging concession that threatens wildlife in virgin rainforest

by ACF | Aug 12, 2020 | Forest, Great Apes, Wildlife News

A Cameroonian government decree allowing logging in a forest that is home to the rare Ebo gorilla and other endangered species, like chimpanzees, forest elephants and grey parrots, has been cancelled. The decree, which was signed mid-July, had sparked outrage among...
Help prevent logging and save rare gorillas in Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Help prevent logging and save rare gorillas in Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

by ACF | Aug 3, 2020 | Forest, Great Apes, Wildlife News

Rainforest Rescue released a petition protesting the Cameroonian government’s move to open 150,000 hectares of Ebo Forest – an area the size of Greater London – to logging.  The logging concessions would impact one of Africa’s great biodiversity hotspots. Ebo Forest...
Urgent pan-Africa action plan launched by PASA to stop illegal chimpanzee trade as sanctuaries reach crisis capacity

Urgent pan-Africa action plan launched by PASA to stop illegal chimpanzee trade as sanctuaries reach crisis capacity

by ACF | Jan 31, 2020 | Great Apes, Wildlife News

GUINEA, WEST AFRICA – The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA)—the largest alliance of wildlife centers in Africa—has announced the launch of Action for Chimpanzees (AFC), a program to curtail the illicit trade of western chimpanzees for bushmeat and the pet trade,...
Global Mountain Gorilla Population Count Grows to 1,063

Global Mountain Gorilla Population Count Grows to 1,063

by ACF | Dec 18, 2019 | Great Apes, Wildlife News

Uganda’s Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquities and the Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration reveal that the number of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in the 340-square kilometer transboundary protected forest have increased to 459 from an...
Complex gorilla societies shed light on roots of human social evolution

Complex gorilla societies shed light on roots of human social evolution

by ACF | Jul 12, 2019 | Great Apes, Wildlife News

Gorillas have more complex social structures than previously thought, from lifetime bonds forged between distant relations, to “social tiers” with striking parallels to traditional human societies, according to a new study. The findings suggest that the origins of our...
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