Publications by authors named "Richard Malonga"
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- The Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo is a important place for saving animals and plants, especially primates, in Central Africa.
- Scientists have set up special stations to study how primates behave in different environments and are using new technology to help their research.
- Despite successes, there are still worries about the future of primates and their homes, so working with local communities is essential for protecting the forests for many years to come.
We present a range-wide assessment of sympatric western lowland gorillas and central chimpanzees using the largest survey data set ever assembled for these taxa: 59 sites in five countries surveyed between 2003 and 2013, totaling 61,000 person-days of fieldwork. We used spatial modeling to investigate major drivers of great ape distribution and population trends. We predicted density across each taxon's geographic range, allowing us to estimate overall abundance: 361,900 gorillas and 128,700 chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa-substantially higher than previous estimates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAfrican forest elephants- taxonomically and functionally unique-are being poached at accelerating rates, but we lack range-wide information on the repercussions. Analysis of the largest survey dataset ever assembled for forest elephants (80 foot-surveys; covering 13,000 km; 91,600 person-days of fieldwork) revealed that population size declined by ca. 62% between 2002-2011, and the taxon lost 30% of its geographical range.
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