The Number Of Chimps Have Dropped 90%
Everybody loves chimpanzees. Their cute, they kind of act like humans and they get to throw their poop at people and it’s considered adorable. Unfortunately for them their numbers are dwindling. In the last 20 years their numbers have dropped by as much as 90% in the Ivory Coast. “Our results show that there has been an alarming decline in chimpanzee numbers, and that urgent action is required to prevent them disappearing entirely,” the research group said. “The dramatic result was that in most areas where we had found chimpanzees (in 1990), there were now none left,” said co-author Christophe Boesch. “We were expecting a decrease but not such a dramatic one,”. The real question is how and why has this happened. “The forest has been cut back in order to grow cash crops and other things,” he explained. “Also, chimpanzees, like many other species, are hunted for their meat. In some regions, including West Africa, something called ‘empty forest syndrome’ has been recorded. This is where the forest itself is still intact but it has been emptied by hunting.”
Hopefully once people see how big of a problem this is they’ll do their part to help save these adorable chimps.
Continue reading the story at “the BBC” :http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7673914.stm
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