Projet Grands Singes, Cameroon: Community based conservation of great apes in non-protected areas of Cameroon Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
The threats faced by populations of great apes vary across their range, but mainly comprise hunting, forest loss and fragmentation and disease epidemics. Populations of large bodied and slow reproducing species, like chimpanzees and gorillas, do not easily recover from even low hunting pressures, and rates of offtake in many cases dramatically exceed any sustainable limit. With the encroachment of humans more and more into ape habitats and the ...