Forests need apes as much as the apes need the forests. They are the gardeners of the forest - keystone species in the ecology of African and Southeast Asian forests, dispersing seeds, creating light gaps and pruning branch-tips whilst feeding. Their habitat comprises two of the planet's three major tropical forest blocks that are essential for global climate regulation. But the economic pressures that are destroying ape habitats are much greater than current available conservation finance. This unique case study from the Kibale national park illustrates how biological research has had diverse consequences for conservation. It examines effects on habitat management, community relations, ecotourism and training. Lessons learned from this project over the last 20 years will inspire researchers and conservationists to work together to promote biodiversity through field projects.
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"Wrangham and Ross have done a service by producing a volume that makes the benefits explicit. This book is as much about strategies as it is about rewards; it is a ''how-to'' (and ''how-not-to'') guide for conducting research in tropical forests. It offers a statement of broader impacts for our research proposals and, more importantly, rebuts the skeptics who claim research in tropical Africa takes more than it gives."
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This unique case study examines effects on habitat management, community relations, ecotourism and training. Whilst the focus has been the Kibale national park, the lessons learned from this project over the last 20 years will inspire researchers and conservationists to work together to promote biodiversity through field projects.
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protected areas, duiker abundance, colobus abundance, conservation field station, chimpanzee conservation, colonizing forests, savanna parks, game corridor, unlogged forest, chimpanzee meat, chimpanzee habitat, red colobus, gorilla tourism, conservation practitioners, forest fragments, primate conservation, crop raiding, national scientists, primate populations, tropical forest conservation, chimpanzee community, chimpanzee populations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kibale National Park, Budongo Forest Reserve, World Heritage, Pan Africa News, Kibale Forest, African Journal of Ecology, Conservation Biology, New York, Mahale Mountains, Uganda Wildlife Authority, The Kasiisi Project, Makerere University, Cambridge University Press, American Journal of Primatology, Fisher's Exact Tests, Oxford University Press, Kibale Chimpanzee Project, West Africa, Green Corridor Project, International Journal of Primatology, Biological Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Evolutionary Anthropology, Dura River Browse Sample Pages:
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