8/14/2023 0 Comments Chimpanzee conservation status![]() All proceeds support the Budongo Snare Removal Project. Kibale Bead bracelets and necklaces are sold onsite at our Beads for Chimps Station and the Oakland Zoo gift shop. Oakland Zoo is proud to offer our Beads for Chimps program that supports women artisans who share habitat with chimpanzees. Oakland Zoo provides yearly professional training for field partners and offers a myriad of staff skills and resources to enhance conservation efforts. Our Eco-Cell program helps save great ape habitats by lowering the need for coltan mining. Oakland Zoo collects used cell phones from visitors in exchange for a train ride. Oakland Zoo uses the power of visitors to combat the Illegal Wildlife Trade through an #Endthetrade pledge and campaign. Oakland Zoo celebrates chimpanzees and conservation efforts to ensure their survival with chimpanzee specific events at the zoo. Oakland Zoo shares conservation issues facing chimpanzees and empowering solutions to conserve them to the public through a variety of channels: Docents and Volunteers, Teen Wild Guides, Education programs, events, exhibits, campaigns, Keeper Talks, and media stories. Funds support impactful and fully-staffed science centers in each of their target villages, community engagement through nature celebrations and lively competitions, and chimpanzee habitat protection through tree planting and the production of eco-stoves and eco-briquettes. The Zoo is also a long-time supporter of the New Nature Foundation and their work in Uganda. Funds support six Eco-Rangers who remove snares from the forest and monitor chimpanzee populations, educators who connect with the community to reduce human-wildlife conflict, a goat program for ex-poachers to have alternative sustenance and financial opportunities, and veterinary care for chimps injured by snares and for the goats that are part of the ex-poacher program. The Zoo is the sole supporter of the Budongo Snare Removal Project. Human-Wildlife ConflictĪs agriculture like sugar cane pushes into chimpanzee habitat, chimps are killed when they raid the crops. As chimps traverse through villages, drawn towards these fields that were once their forest home, more human-wildlife conflict occurs. Snares used to trap these animals also cause severe injuries and death to chimpanzees who are accidentally caught in the tightening wire loops. Hunting exotic animals illegally is done for sustenance and to fuel a growing demand for exotic animals in restaurants. Uganda faces a crisis that many African countries share: poaching for bushmeat. Illegal logging, increased agriculture, and the intention to explore the use of oil reserves is likely to exacerbate land pressures and environmental degradation. Near the Budongo Forest Reserve, population pressure from immigration due to wars and civil unrest in neighboring countries means cropland is scarce. Alternatives options to cook food for a family are crucial. With forests outside protected areas in decline, many locals see no alternative but to illegally harvest wood from their local habitat. Wood and charcoal are the sole sources of energy for most people living near Kibale National Park, greatly exceeding the average reliance on fuel wood in other parts of Africa. " Snare Removal." The Jane Goodall Institute.With a human population that has increased sevenfold since 1920 and continues to grow, the future of the Kibale Forest is far from secure. Walsh, Peter D., et al. " The Final (Oral Ebola) Vaccine Trial on Captive Chimpanzees?" Sci Rep 7, 43339, 2017, doi:10.1038/srep43339 ![]() " Targeted Conservation Genetics of the Endangered Chimpanzee." Heredity, vol. 125, 2020, pp. " Lessons Learned While Protecting Wild Chimpanzees in West Africa." American Journal Of Primatology, vol 83, no. " Chimpanzee: Wildlife Conservation." African Wildlife Foundation.īoesch, Christophe et al. " Growing at a Slower Pace, World Population is Expected to Reach 9.7 Billion in 2050 and Could Peak at Nearly 11 Billion Around 2100: UN Report." United Nations. Stiles, Daniel, et al., editors. " Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade In Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos And Orangutans - A Rapid Response Assessment." United Nations Environment Programme, 2013. " State of the Wild Chimpanzee." The Jane Goodall Institute. " Pan Troglodytes." International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, 2016, doi:10.2305/iucn.uk.
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