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Conserving great apes while meeting local development needs mugisha2015
1. Challenges of conserving great apes
while meeting local development needs
Development and Conservation
Dialogue
2. Commonalities
Humans
• Need forests for forest
products
• Agricultural food crops
• Health needs
• Intellect
Great Apes
• Need forests as their home
• Most of the agricultural
food crops are a delicacy for
the apes
• Diseases that afflict humans
also afflict apes
• Great apes are closely
related to humans (99%)
genetic similarity
3. Conflicts
• Habitat loss due to: conversion, degradation,
urbanization etc.
• Crop raiding resulting into: food insecurity, poor
health, increased poverty
• Results: Conflicting relations – death and maiming
of apes, sick, poor and impoverished people