Date: May 22, 2019
Source: University of Kent
Research
carried out into the impact of changes to chimpanzee habitats found they have
adapted to human developments in a number of ways -- including learning how to
cross roads safely and the best times to visit human habitats -- but their
survival is still threatened.
A team of
anthropologists from the University of Kent and universities in Spain, in
collaboration with the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone, made
their discoveries from hidden cameras during an eight-month study in the
African country.
Although
chimpanzees living in fragmented habitats cross roads to move from one area to
another of their home range and may approach human settlements, any further
road widening, tarmacking or expansion and urbanisation could significantly
affect their distribution and abundance.
Consequently,
the research team suggests care with infrastructure development, as well as
developing agreements with farmers to allow strategic fallow areas to
regenerate into community-managed forest refuges providing corridors for
wildlife and vital natural resources and ecosystem services for both humans and
wildlife.
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