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Western Chimpanzee Action Plan informational pamphlets available

The WCAP Implementation Committee and ARCC Task Force created pamphlets in French and English highlighting key issues in western chimpanzee conservation. These are excellent resources for stakeholders and are print-ready! Click to download (For higher quality, printer-press versions, please contact the Regional Coordinator):

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Private Industry in Western chimpanzee habitats (EN | FR), Protecting chimpanzee diversity (EN | FR), Strengthening Legal Frameworks for Chimpanzee Protection (EN), Great Ape Disease Risk Mitigation for Industrial Development Projects (EN | FR | ZH | DH), and the WCAP Regional Alliance (EN)

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Our Annual Report is published

Year 2025 was a year full of activities for our community. We’ve summarized many of these initiatives in our Annual Report. You can access the report at the links below, and you can view the annual reports for previous years in our archive:

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EN | FR

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The WCAP newsletter

Our series of bimonthly newsletters has started! These newsletters offer  insights into ongoing projects, updates on conservation activities concerning western chimpanzees, and contact information for key individuals. Don't miss out—be sure to subscribe!

In case you missed a newsletter, simply explore our archive featuring all past editions.

Members of Our Community

Members of Our Community

Resources

Online Databases & Platforms

Regional and Sub-regional Action Plans & Reports 

Literture Cited
Clough, C. and May, C. (2018). Illicit Financial Flows and the Illegal Trade in Great Apes. Washington, DC: Global Financial Integrity. https://gfintegrity.org/report/illicit-financial-flows-and-the-illegal-trade-in-great-apes/
Covey, R. and McGraw, W.S. (2014). Monkeys in a West African bushmeat market: implications for cercopithecid conservation in east­ern Liberia. Tropical Conservation Science 7: 115–125. https://doi.org/10.1177/194008291400700103
Danquah, E., Oppong, S.K., Akom, E. and Sam, M. (2012). Preliminary survey of chimpanzees and threatened monkeys in the Bia-Goa­so Forest Block in southwestern Ghana. African Primates 7: 163–164.
Danthu, P., Ndongo, M., Diaou, M., Thiam, O., Sarr, A., Dedhiou, B. and Vall, A.O.M. (2003). Impact of bush fire on germination of some West African acacias. Forest Ecology and Management 173: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00822-2
Duvall, C.S. (2008). Human settlement ecology and chimpanzee habitat selection in Mali. Landscape Ecology 23: 699–714. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-008-9231-x
Edwards, D.P., Sloan, S., Weng, L., Dirks, P., Sayer, J. and Laurance, W.F. (2014). Mining and the African environment. Conservation Letters 7: 302–311. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12076
Emery Thompson, M., Kahlenberg, S.M., Gilby, I.C. and Wrangham, R.W. (2007). Core area quality is associated with variance in repro­ductive success among female chimpanzees at Kibale National Park. Animal Behaviour 73: 501–512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.007
GRASP and IUCN (2018). Report to the CITES Standing Committee on the Status of Great Apes. United Nations Environment Pro­gramme Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). http://www.pri­mate-sg.org/apes/
Garriga, R.M., Marco, I., Casas-Díaz, E., Acevedo, P., Amarasekaran, B., Cuadrado, L. and Humle, T. (2019). Factors influencing wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) relative abundance in an agriculture-swamp matrix outside protected areas. PLoS One 14: e0215545. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215545
Gibbs, H.K., Ruesch, A.S., Achard, F., Clayton, M.K., Holmgren, P. et al. (2010). Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107: 16732–16737. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910275107
Giglio, L., Csiszar, I. and Justice, C.O. (2006). Global distribution and seasonality of active fires as observed with the Terra and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: G02016. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JG000142
Gilardi, K.V., Gillespie, T.R., Leendertz, F.H., Macfie, E.J., Travis, D.A., Whittier, C.A. and Williamson, E.A. (2015). Best Practice Guide­lines for Health Monitoring and Disease Control in Great Ape Populations. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2015.SSC-OP.56.en
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