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Status of Grauer's Gorilla and Chimpanzees in Eastern Status of Grauer’s gorilla and chimpanzees in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo 1 STATUS OF GRAUER’S GORILLA AND CHIMPANZEES IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Historical and Current Distribution and Abundance Andrew J. Plumptre, Stuart Nixon, Robert Critchlow, Ghislain Vieilledent, Radar Nishuli, Andrew Kirkby, Elizabeth A. Williamson, Jefferson S. Hall and Deo Kujirakwinja STATUS OF GRAUER’S GORILLA AND CHIMPANZEES IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Historical and Current Distribution and Abundance Andrew J. Plumptre1 Stuart Nixon2* Robert Critchlow3 Ghislain Vieilledent4 Radar Nishuli5 Andrew Kirkby1 Elizabeth A. Williamson6 Jefferson S. Hall7 Deo Kujirakwinja1 1. Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York 10460, USA 2. North of England Zoological Society, Chester Zoo, Upton by Chester,CH2 1LH, UK 3. Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK 4. CIRAD, UPR BSEF, F-34398 Montpellier, France 5. Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN),Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo 6. School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK 7. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Av. Roosevelt 401, Balboa, Ancon, Panama *Formerly Fauna & Flora International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ ISBN 10: 0-9792418-5-5 Front and back cover photos: A.Plumptre/WCS ISBN 13: 978-0-9792418-5-7 Status of Grauer’s gorilla and chimpanzees in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild EXECUTIVE SUMMARY places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature. WCS envisions a world where wildlife thrives in healthy lands and seas, valued by societies that This report summarises the current state of knowledge on the Executive Summary .......................................................................................................... 5 embrace and benefit from the diversity and integrity of life on earth. distribution, densities and trends in abundance of Grauer’s gorilla Great Apes in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ........................................................... 6 Our goal is to conserve the world’s largest wild places in 15 priority (Gorilla beringei graueri) and the eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes regions, home to more than 50% of the world’s biodiversity. In the schweinfurthii) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Conservation action plan for great apes .................................................................. 7 Albertine Rift region of Africa WCS has been supporting conservation It summarises the historical knowledge about the distribution of Historical Distribution of Grauer’s Gorilla ................................................................ 8 since 1957 and is the oldest International Conservation NGO working Grauer’s gorilla across its range and describes the development of a Distribution ......................................................................................................... 9 here. Our focus has been on building the capacity of the protected Conservation Action Plan (CAP) for these two ape species. A result of area authorities in the region to be able to better manage their this CAP was funding from Arcus Foundation, KfW, USAID, UNESCO Conservation status 1959–1996: Historic perspectives ....................................................... 10 protected areas as well as providing results of scientific research to and US Fish and Wildlife Service to undertake an assessment of Conservation status 1996–2010: Conflict and increasing threats ......................................... 12 better understand the importance of the Albertine Rift and how best to the current status of these apes across the range of Grauer’s gorilla. Conservation status 2012: Current “best guess” abundance ................................................ 14 conserve the incredibly rich biodiversity to be found here. Find more at: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Fauna & Flora International www.albertinerift.org, www.wcsuganda.org, and www.wcs.org (FFI) worked with Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature Threats to great apes in eastern DRC ............................................................................... 16 (ICCN) and the Reserve managers of the Reserve des Gorilles de Methods ....................................................................................................................... 18 Established over a century ago, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) was Punia (RGPU) and local communities to undertake surveys across the Occupancy analysis ............................................................................................ 20 the world’s first international conservation organisation. It is renowned region using a variety of methods: line transects, recces along paths Original plan for surveys ..................................................................................... 20 for its innovative, landmark programmes, many of which have come and patrol data from data collected by rangers while on patrol and to be regarded as classic examples of conservation practice .The entered into SMART software. Final method used ............................................................................................. 21 pioneering work of its founders in Africa led to the creation of numerous Comparison of trend estimates of ape nests and ape populations ............................ 22 protected areas, including Kruger and Serengeti National Parks. Today This survey region has been characterised by insecurity and Re-analysis of 1994 transect survey data ............................................................. 23 Fauna & Flora International’s work spans across the globe, with over lawlessness since the start of the Congolese civil war in 1996. Many 140 projects in over 40 countries, mostly in the developing world. FFI militia groups have controlled different areas and established artisanal WCS transect surveys 2011–2015 ....................................................................... 23 proudly stands up for biodiversity and aims to show just how relevant mining camps to fund their operations. Most of these mining camps Comparison of encounter rates ............................................................................ 23 it is to all of those who share the planet. FFI has supported Great Ape rely on access to bushmeat for the miners to survive and great apes Results ....................................................................................................................... 24 conservation in DRC since 1991 with the creation of the collaborative are among the more highly prized species because of their relatively International Gorilla Conservation Programme which helps protect the large size. Occupancy analysis ............................................................................................ 25 Critically Endangered mountain gorillas of DRC, Rwanda and Uganda. Grauer’s gorillas ................................................................................................. 26 In 2009 FFI started community conservation programmes around Results show a major decline in both species of ape across this region Chimpanzees .................................................................................................... 27 the Maiko and Kahuzi-Biega national parks in support of ICCN, and with an estimated 77–93% decline in Grauer’s gorilla across its since this time has worked with rural communities to reduce forest range and between a 22 and 45% decline in the eastern chimpanzee Comparison of density estimates ......................................................................... 28 exploitation, conducted participatory biodiversity surveys throughout populations. In the case of Grauer’s gorilla, an 80% decline in 20 Survey effort and detection curves ....................................................................... 28 the landscape, provided capacity-building programmes for DRC years is justification for listing this subspecies as Critically Endangered Gorilla densities ............................................................................................................. 30 nationals in ape monitoring techniques, and developed community- on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN 2015). The Chimpanzee densities ..................................................................................................... 32 based ape monitoring programmes around the Maiko National Park. eastern chimpanzee is more widespread, occurring across northern Find out more at: www.fauna-flora.org and eastern DRC as well as in Central African Republic, Uganda, Comparison of encounter rates for different sites ................................................... 33 Rwanda, Burundi, western Tanzania and western South Sudan, and Correlations of encounter rates and density ........................................................... 36 The Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) may not be as threatened across its range but given the decline in this Predicting ape numbers from the occupancy analysis ............................................. 37 has a mission to assure the protection of the fauna and flora in the part of DRC it should be monitored more closely. network of protected areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Estimated gorilla numbers .................................................................................
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