Chimpanzees suffer collateral damage from increased poaching

In Uganda's Kibale National Park, a French team from the National Museum of Natural History is studying primates. But its remit also extends to protection, as the endangered local chimpanzee population struggles with a growing poaching problem: the accidental maiming and killing of the primates in traps laid for other animals.

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Programme prepared by Patrick Lovett and Elom Marcel Toble

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