Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa
@article{Walsh2003CatastrophicAD, title={Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa}, author={Peter D. Walsh and Kate Abernethy and Magdalena Bermejo and Rene L. Beyers and Pauwel De Wachter and Marc Ella Akou and Bas Huijbregts and Daniel Idiata Mambounga and Andr{\'e} Kamdem Toham and Annelisa M. Kilbourn and Sally A. Lahm and Stefanie Latour and Fiona Maisels and C. Nguemby Mbina and Yves Mihindou and Sosth{\`e}ne Ndong Obiang and Ernestine Ntsame Effa and Malcolm Starkey and Paul Telfer and Marc Thibault and Caroline E. G. Tutin and Lee J. T. White and David S. Wilkie}, journal={Nature}, year={2003}, volume={422}, pages={611-614} }
Because rapidly expanding human populations have devastated gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) habitats in East and West Africa, the relatively intact forests of western equatorial Africa have been viewed as the last stronghold of African apes. Gabon and the Republic of Congo alone are thought to hold roughly 80% of the world's gorillas and most of the common chimpanzees. Here we present survey results conservatively indicating that ape populations in Gabon…
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