Baby gorilla will join other orphans

August 2011. An infant mountain gorilla has been confiscated from poachers by Rwandan police in the town of Gisenyi on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Police arrested the Congolese poachers holding the infant as well as two Rwandans who were helping the poachers. The gorilla had been captured near the Bukima area of Virunga National Park, according to the poachers, indicating that it belongs to a critically endangered population. The poachers claimed they kept the gorilla for about six days, feeding him bananas and sugar cane until attempting to smuggle him to Rwanda.

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/baby-gorilla018.html#cr

18/08/2011
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By David Fogarty

SINGAPORE | Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:49am EDT

A year later, the project is close to collapse, a casualty of labyrinthine Indonesian bureaucracy, opaque laws and a secretive palm oil company.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/16/us-indonesia-carbon-idUSTRE77F0IK20110816

16/08/2011
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International Journal of Primatology | Henzi S. Peter et al | August 2011

Abstract: Primates living outside protected areas frequently come into conflict with humans. While the focus of most research has been on the costs and consequences of crop raiding in relation to subsistence agriculture, large-scale commercial agriculture presents conservation challenges of its own. Baboons that occupy commercial pine plantations in southern Africa often damage young trees and, consequently, are shot in large numbers. We here aim to describe the population structure and resource and habitat use by baboons in such areas to provide the data needed for the formulation of viable long-term conservation policies.

01/08/2011
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BBC Nature | Victoria Gill | June 2011

The most innocuous interactions with tourists can upset endangered Barbary macaques, say scientists.

A study revealed that macaques at a site regularly visited by tourists showed signs of anxiety when people got too close, fed them or tried to attract their attention for a photograph.

28/07/2011
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WWF's flagship scheme to promote sustainable timber " the Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN)" is allowing companies to reap the benefits of association with WWF and its iconic panda brand, while they continue to destroy forests and trade in illegally sourced timber, a new briefing by Global Witness reveals. While GFTN is intended to reduce and eliminate such practices over the first 5 years
of membership, systemic failures blight the scheme's ability to deliver for forests.

The Global Witness briefing, Pandering to the Loggers, discovered that major Malaysian logging company Ta Ann Holdings Berhad, which is a paying member of the scheme, has forest operations destroying rainforest at the equivalent rate of 20 football pitches a day, including orang-utan habitat within the boundaries of WWF's own "Heart of Borneo" project.

25/07/2011
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Edwin Musoni

A scientific team managing Gishwati Forest has disclosed that Rwanda's endangered chimpanzees increased by 54 percent in the last two and half years.

According to a report by Great Ape Trust, in 2008, there were only 13 apes and since then, seven baby chimpanzees were born.

Recently, researchers with the Gishwati Area Conservation Programme (GACP) identified a baby chimpanzee born to Gihozo, a prominent female in the Gishwati ape population.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201107251861.html

23/07/2011
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