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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...
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...
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...
The more male gorillas look after young, the more young they’re likely to have

The more male gorillas look after young, the more young they’re likely to have

by ACF | Dec 7, 2018 | Great Apes

Paternal care – where fathers care for their children – is rare among mammals (that is, animals which give birth to live young). Scientists have identified more than 6,000 mammal species, but paternal care only occurs in 5 to 10% of them. Humans fall into that...
What great apes feces tell us about human health and digestive disorders

What great apes feces tell us about human health and digestive disorders

by ACF | May 6, 2018 | Great Apes, Wildlife News

A study of the microbiomes of wild gorillas and chimpanzees offers insights into the evolution of the human microbiome and might even have implications for human health. The research project was led by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at...
Animals are victims of human conflict, so can conservation help build peace in warzones?

Animals are victims of human conflict, so can conservation help build peace in warzones?

by ACF | Jan 16, 2018 | Great Apes, Virunga

More than 70% of Africa’s national parks have been affected by war in recent decades, and wildlife has suffered as a result. That’s according to a new study by researchers from Yale and Princeton universities, which looked at data on 253 populations of large...
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