Gun shots alarm the census team
Category: Census, Tacugama | Date: Jun 09 2009 | By: tacugama
Dr Terry Brncic reports back from her team’s most recent census visit to the Outamba Kilimi National Park (OKNP) in the north of Sierra Leone on behalf of Tacugama:
Outamba Kilimi National Park is currently the only national park in Sierra Leone. Located in the far north of Sierra Leone on the border with Guinea, it is divided into the larger Outamba section in the east and Kilimi section in the west of northern Bombali district. The terrain is relatively flat with low rolling hills and plateaus offering excellent views across the spectacular landscape.
Thin strips of darker riverine forest running through the woodland savanna, and some of the spectacular hills across OKNP
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Tags: Census, Chimpanzee, sanctuary, Sierra Leone, Tacugama, wildlife
2000 nests and another young chimp for Tacugama
Category: Census | Date: Apr 20 2009 | By: tacugama
The Sierra Leone National Chimpanzee Census Project team has just returned from an intensive 26 days of surveying Moyamba District in the south west of Sierra Leone. This district is close to Freetown, with many villages throughout that depend on slash and burn subsistance farming for survival. There is very little standing forest remaining. Dr Terry Brncic, the Scientific Project Manager gives her report:
We travelled over 1125 miles in search of wild chimpanzees… usually in first or second gear due to the road conditions!
Another makeshift bridge safely crossed…
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Tags: Census, Chimpanzee, sanctuary, Sierra Leone
How many chimpanzees in Sierra Leone?
Category: Census | Date: Aug 05 2008 | By: tacugama
There is no accurate understanding of current wild chimpanzee numbers in Sierra Leone. What we know is that the forest cover today is only 5% of what it was 100 years ago and that human encroachment of key habitat areas continues at an alarming rate.
Timber collection close to the entrance road for Outamba Kilimi National Park
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Tags: Africa Alive, Augsburg Zoo, Census, Chester Zoo, Chimpanzee, Copenhagen Zoo, funding, PASA, Sweden Chimpanzee Trust
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