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Palm oil wiping out Africa’s great ape rainforests

The Ecologist | February 24, 2015 | Staff Writer |

The rainforest habitat of chimpanzees and other great apes is being destroyed by the expansion of palm oil projects in central Africa, according to new evidence from Greenpeace. If proactive strategies to mitigate the effects of large-scale habitat conversion are not soon implemented, we can expect a rapid decline in African primate diversity Satellite images … Full Story ?
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