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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...
Tusks found in 500-year-old shipwreck reveal origins of ancient elephants and impact of the ivory trade

Tusks found in 500-year-old shipwreck reveal origins of ancient elephants and impact of the ivory trade

by ACF | Dec 17, 2020 | Elephants, Ivory

Oxford University study leads cutting-edge scientific and historic analysis of elephant tusks found in shipwrecked cargo. OXFORD, 17 December 2020 – An international team has discovered the origin of the largest cargo of African ivory found from the oldest shipwreck...
How do giraffes and elephants alter the African Savanna landscape?

How do giraffes and elephants alter the African Savanna landscape?

by ACF | Sep 18, 2020 | Elephants, Wildlife News

As they roam around the African savanna in search for food, giraffes and elephants alter the diversity and richness of its vegetation. By studying the foraging patterns of these megaherbivores across different terrains in a savanna in Kenya, scientists from the...
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...
Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides

Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides

by ACF | Aug 9, 2020 | Big Cats, Conservation Solutions, Wildlife News

The predation of livestock by carnivores, and the retaliatory killing of carnivores as a result, is a major global conservation challenge. Such human-wildlife conflicts are a key driver of large carnivore declines and the costs of coexistence are often...
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...
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