Sentences with phrase «ape populations»

Survey data collected between 2003 and 2013 were used to produce great ape population density maps across the entire range of both western lowland gorillas and central chimpanzees to re-assess conservation priorities.

A continent - wide survey combined GIS, remote - sending and ape population data on a large scale to show that gorilla habitats have shrunk for many gorilla subspecies

Olam, however, denies the claim, insisting it will only put the plantation on «land that is classed as savannah mosaic, woody pioneer areas, logged or degraded forest that does not support significant conservation priorities,» and it is working with authorities to develop an ape management plan that aims to «safeguard ape populations wherever they are found.»

«It now focuses the lens just a bit more on what life history, energetic and ecological attributes we should examine in other well - studied ape populations,» Schwartz says.

It is one human lashing out that makes the entire ape population forget the kinder side of them.

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

But what makes the new survey all the more unnerving is that until now, very few studies have combined the considerable body of existing geographic - information - system and remote - sensing information and ape population data on such a scale.

In total, ape populations have declined by an estimated 56 % in Gabon since 1983.

Until recently, says ecologist Peter Walsh of Princeton University in New Jersey, experts have believed that ape populations in Gabon and Congo, home to 80 % of the world's gorillas and most common chimps, were stable because these countries retain much of their original forest cover.

The research also explains why current zoo breeding programs, which have attempted to increase the genetic diversity of captive great ape populations, have resulted in captive ape populations that are genetically dissimilar to their wild counterparts..

Many of the actions proposed in the previous action plan published in 2005 were successfully implemented and have helped to slow the declines in the ape populations.

To provide a new assessment that went beyond the patchwork of local efforts, 47 scientists from 31 institutions analyzed data compiled in the Ape Populations, Environments and Surveys database — a depository launched in 2007 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature that contains all existing ape survey information — isolating some 15,000 confirmed great - ape sites in 68 different areas.

The exact opposite has happened to the ape population.

The most focal ape of the first film, Caesar (again Andy Serkis motion capture), is the leader of the ape population, respected and revered by all of his kind.

What good is it that Malcolm's wife Ellie (Keri Russell) is a doctor who can treat Caesar's ailing wife when Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) is ready to arm the humans and totally wipe out the ape population?

To its great credit, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes focuses predominantly on the ape population and the human characters exist here on the sidelines.