Gorilla conservation and monitoring
In 2018 I started working in Monte Alén National Park, in mainland Equatorial Guinea, on the conservation of Western lowland gorillas. This project is in collaboration with the Bristol Zoological Society and with the Equatorial Guinea´s Institute for Forestry Development (INDEFOR).
Monte Alén National Park contains some of the most extraordinary diversity of primates and other large-mammals in Central Africa. As such, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) identified Monte Alén-Monts de Cristal-Abanga landscape, a transboundary region between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, as a site of exceptional importance of the conservation of this gorillas. Unfortunately, there is little active protection in Monte Alén, and a thriving a bushmeat trade, combined with a rapid improvement in the national road network are threatening the survival of these primates and their habitat.
With funding from Arcus Foundation, National Geographic´s Species Recovery Fund, Bristol Zoological Society and the IUCN GEF we are currently examining anthropological and ecological factors affecting the distribution and population densities of western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and other large mammals.
Monte Alén National Park contains some of the most extraordinary diversity of primates and other large-mammals in Central Africa. As such, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) identified Monte Alén-Monts de Cristal-Abanga landscape, a transboundary region between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, as a site of exceptional importance of the conservation of this gorillas. Unfortunately, there is little active protection in Monte Alén, and a thriving a bushmeat trade, combined with a rapid improvement in the national road network are threatening the survival of these primates and their habitat.
With funding from Arcus Foundation, National Geographic´s Species Recovery Fund, Bristol Zoological Society and the IUCN GEF we are currently examining anthropological and ecological factors affecting the distribution and population densities of western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and other large mammals.