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WCS fully recognizes that it is essential to involve local people in conservation efforts to save Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees. For unless we improve law enforcement within protected areas, and reduce levels of hunting, logging, livestock grazing and encroachment, wildlife will not survive in Nigeria.Ĭommunity Conservation. There is little wildlife left in Nigeria today outside of protected areas, providing support to strengthen the management of these areas is the main focus of WCS in Nigeria. Law Enforcement and Protected Area Management. The combination of hunting and habitat loss has fragmented the distribution of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, many of the remaining populations are small and isolated, and at increased risk form disease and other unpredictable events.Ĭreation of Protected Areas WCS supported the creation of new protected areas including Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary (2000) and Takamanda National Park (2008). Habitat loss occurs as a result of agriculture, logging, grazing and fire. Chimpanzees are mainly hunted with shotguns although they are also caught in wire snares to set terrestrial animals. Classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List.Īs the human populations has increases across Nigeria and Cameroon, habitat destruction and hunting have driven the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee to extinction across much of its former range. Estimates of the total chimpanzee population in Nigeria range from 1,400 to 2,300 with similar numbers in SW Cameroon. The main stronghold for chimpanzees in Nigeria is in the gallery forests and habitat mosaic of Gashaka Gumti National Park in Taraba State where it is estimated that perhaps 1,000 chimpanzees survive. Small groups of chimpanzees still occur in the remaining forest fragments of south-western Nigeria and the Niger Delta although these small and isolated populations are at increased risk of extinction from disease and other unpredictable events. In Nigeria the chimpanzee is found in the large forests blocks of Cross River State including Cross River National Park, the Mbe Mountains and Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Also known as Elliot’s chimpanzee it is the most endangered of four currently recognized subspecies of chimpanzee. The Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee Pan troglodytes ellioti, is restricted to Nigeria and SW Cameroon.