Great Ape Trafficking in Africa
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At a meeting of the Presidential Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking at the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday, African Wildlife Foundation's (AWF's) Director of the African Apes Initiative, Jef Dupain, testified before council members and the general public on the growing threat of great ape trafficking and the impact this illicit industry poses to wild populations of bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas in Africa.
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- 1. Great Ape Trafficking in Africa Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 2. Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 3. Four African Ape Species Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 4. Cross River Gorilla Population 250 - 300 Western lowland Gorilla Population 150,000 Mountain Gorilla Population 880 Grauer’s Gorilla Population 2,000 – 10,000 Western Chimpanzee Population 20,000 Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee Population 6,000 Bonobo Population 15,000 – 20,000 Eastern Chimpanzee Population 200,000 Central Chimpanzee Population 70,000- 117,000 Gorilla range Chimpanzee range Bonobo range Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 5. Bushmeat Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 6. DEMAND PIC Photo credit: http://metro.co.uk/ Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 7. Photo Credit Martin Harvey Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 8. Photo credit: LuAnne Cadd / Congolese Wildlife Authority Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 9. Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 10. Educate and sensitize the public Enhance law enforcement and capacity Improve and enhance trade oversight & regulations Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 11. Educate and sensitize the public Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014 Jef Dupain AWF African Apes Initiative Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 12. Enhance law enforcement Law enforcement Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014 Jef Dupain AWF African Apes Initiative Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 13. Improve trade oversight & regulations Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 14. Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, 2014
- 15. Thank You Jef Dupain AWF Great Apes Program Director www.awf.org
Editor's Notes
- The Bonobo is the unique species, living throughout a 400K km² distribution range on the left bank of the Congo river. Based on very fragmentary info, we think that there are at least 15-20thousand bonobos left…but endangered. I belive that this nr might be higher…however, the major danger is the ongoing killing of bonobos throughout its distribution range. The common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, is represented by 4 subspecies: The Western chimpanzee with a total population of over 20,000individuals living in isolated forest patches in ivory coast, Liberia, sierra leone, Guinea up to the drylands of Senegal, covering in total about 600,000km². 80% of their habitat lost over last decade (have to check!) and they already disappeared in 4 countries..;endangered. The Nigeria-Cameroun chimpanzee, living like the cross river gorilla on the border of Nigeria and Cameroun still has a total population of about 6thousand individuals in a total distribution range of about 150,000km², however, due to the high human population density, only 30% of this 150K km² is probably still suitable habitat. Species is endangered. The Central chimpanzee lives throughout Gabon, Cameroun, Guinea Equatorial, Congo Brazza with an estimated 70-117thousand left in an estimated 700K km² distribution range. Species is endangered, and has been hammered also by ebola, like the sympatric lowland gorilla. On top, bushmeat hunting throughout is major threat. For the Eastern chimpanzee, an estimated 200thousand are spread throughout about 800thousand sq km distribution range. This subspecies is endangered also. We all know the chimps of Gome and the Mahale mountains in Tanzania. Good to know that these nrs were much lower just a few years ago…increase is because of new surveys and identification of new populations and ranges occupied by this species. The region of Bili Uele in northern DRC, with the recent surveys carried out there contributed a lot to this. Now, for all these populations/subspecies, numbers are decreasing, except for the mountain gorilla, as we have seen before. All are endangered critically endangered. However, while there is increased awareness about dwindling numbers of elephants, and the threat for rhino poaching, the world forgot about the great apes. While in the 90’s, there was quite a lot of attention for the bushmeat crisis, reference to the empty forest etc…discussions moved into sustainability of hunting, and today, the rhino and elephant crisis are on the front page. The threat to great apes however has never decreased and is probably today more acute as ever before. Threats to great apes can be summarized into four big categories:
- Bushmeat