How can we protect great apes?

How you can help

1. Visit gorillas.
2. Give a gift!
3. Buy sustainable wood.
4. Donate to WWF to help support our great ape conservation work.
5. Spread the word!

How can we save chimpanzees from getting extinct?

protect chimpanzees through antipoaching and effective law enforcement. help governments establish and manage national parks. monitor chimpanzee populations. encourage sustainable use of forest resources in park buffer zones.

Why are great apes going extinct?

The four types of great apes – gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees, and orangutans – are all threatened with extinction by habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and hunting. Despite the threats posed to great apes, many extractive industries continue their lucrative and destructive practices unabated.

Will the great apes go extinct?

All gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos are already endangered or critically endangered. But a combination of the climate crisis, the destruction of wild areas for minerals, timber and food, and human population growth is on track to decimate their ranges by 2050, the scientists said.

How can we save the chimpanzee?

We work on a number of fronts to help the young victims of the illegal commercial bushmeat trade: Rescue: Working with African governments, JGI ensures that illegally held chimpanzees are confiscated from poachers or market vendors and placed in sanctuaries across Africa.

How are orangutan being protected?

Orangutans are protected by legislation dating from 1931 which prohibits the owning, killing, or capture of the species. However, the illegal trade in orangutans continues to annihilate remaining wild populations, often linked to logging and clear cutting for plantations.

What would happen if chimps went extinct?

What would happen if Chimpanzees were to go extinct? Since Chimps are omnivores, they eat insects,animals, and plants. If they were to go extinct it may cause an increase in some populations, but not a huge impact. We would also have no more chimp pelts or meat for African cultures.

How do chimps protect themselves?

Using their strong muscles, they grapple, slam and wrestle their victims to the ground. They hit, kick, stomp, pull on fur and drag their victims. Chimpanzees are able to defend themselves, or begin a fight, by using their great intelligence.

Are humans part of the great apes?

Humans belong to the biological group known as Primates, and are classified with the great apes, one of the major groups of the primate evolutionary tree. Besides similarities in anatomy and behavior, our close biological kinship with other primate species is indicated by DNA evidence.

What is the rarest great ape?

Tapanuli orangutan
The Tapanuli orangutan, the most endangered great ape species, is at a greater risk of extinction than previously thought because of rapid habitat loss and unsustainable hunting, according to a new scientific report published at the beginning of January.

Why should we protect chimpanzees?

Chimpanzees, our close relatives, play a vital role in maintaing the diversity of Central Africa’s forests. The large seeds they eat and disperse are too big for most other animals. Without them, and their fellow great apes and elephants, these forests would be irreversibly changed.

Are great apes going extinct in Africa?

In both Africa and Asia, great apes – bonobos, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans – are rapidly losing much of their forest habitat to human activities such as agriculture, mining, and commercial logging. Asia’s only great ape, the orangutan, is also in deep trouble. Are great apes going extinct?

What is happening to the great apes?

In both Africa and Asia, great apes – bonobos, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans – are rapidly losing much of their forest habitat to human activities such as agriculture, mining, and commercial logging. Asia’s only great ape, the orangutan, is also in deep trouble.

How many great ape species are endangered?

Four out of six great ape species are now Critically Endangered – only one step away from going extinct – with the remaining two also under considerable threat of extinction. Eastern Gorilla.

Why should we protect great ape species?

As a species, they are critical to the ecology of the tropical forests where they historically reside. Despite the national and international laws protecting Great Ape species, these primates continue to be hunted for their meat and body parts.