On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes

Mongabay
Oct 25, 2021, 12:00 am173 pts
CROSS RIVER STATE, Nigeria — Sampson Akoba’s long career as a ranger has left him with a wealth of assorted memories: hunters’ revolts, the death of his nephew in a violent encounter with a Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti), and the smoldering coals of campfires in the cold depths of…

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