Poaching, fires, farming pervade: protecting bonobos 'an enormous challenge' (Part II)

Mongabay
By Morgan Erickson-DavisJul 17, 2014, 6:03 pm227 pts
Sankuru Nature Reserve in the DRC was established in 2007 to safeguard the 29,000 to 50,000 bonobos that remain in existence. However, while touted as the largest swath of protected continuous great ape habitat in the world, the reserve is still losing thousands of hectares of forest every year. Burning,…

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