Published on Pambazuka News (https://www.pambazuka.org)

Home > africa: critical decline in great apes

Contributor [1]
Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
106 [3]
Article-Summary: 

More than half of Africa's chimpanzees and gorillas have disappeared in the past 20 years, a steep decline that has alarmed scientists. One of the most detailed surveys of the primates in their heartland of western equatorial Africa has documented the crash.

Category: 
Land & Environment [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/14342 [5]

Source URL: https://www.pambazuka.org/node/15791

Links
[1] https://www.pambazuka.org/author/contributor
[2] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3298
[3] https://www.pambazuka.org/article-issue/106
[4] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3288
[5] http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/14342