Bonobo numbers in DRC park stable, but signs of decline appear

Mongabay
Jan 10, 2025, 12:27 am160 pts
Bonobo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Salonga National Park remained steady between 2002 and 2018, but there are worrying signals of decline, a recent study has found. For decades, Salonga has been known to host the largest known population of bonobos (Pan paniscus), an endangered great ape…

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