¿Seremos capaces una vez más de cometer un genocidio de exterminio contra las poblaciones de grandes simios que aún viven en libertad? ¿Seremos capaces de tomar medidas concretas y declarar su protección en los altos organismos mundiales? ¿Tan difícil es comprender la importancia de su existencia?. Si ellos desaparecen y no logramos su protección, nosotros seremos los siguientes.
Por Pedro Pozas Terrados
17 de julio, 2021.- Los grandes simios (orangutanes, bonobos, gorilas y chimpancés), han caminado junto a nosotros el mismo recorrido en miles de años de evolución. Tenemos un mismo ancestro común, hemos y estamos compartiendo el mismo hábitat y enfrentados a los mismos peligros en una Tierra cambiante y llena de incertidumbre, en la que en numerosas ocasiones nuestros linajes han compartido también, a lo largo de la historia, el mismo camino de aprendizaje y evolución. El Homo Sapiens sapiens se hizo con la coronación del reino animal y más tarde colonizó todos
The tropical Ebo Forest in Southwest Cameroon is known for its unique ecosystem and for being a home to endangered and rare species. However, in early 2020, the Cameroon government approved the creation of logging concessions in the forest. SciDev.Net published a story about the threat posed by the concessions to the communities and wildlife of the forest. By August 2020, the concessions had been cancelled. Local NGO Foder believes media attention, including SciDev.Net’s article, played an important role in this cancellation.
Trying to keep loggers out of Cameroon s Ebo Forest
Environmental activists in Cameroon are fighting to ensure that no logging licenses are issued for the Ebo Forest in order to protect the native plants and gorilla species that only live there.
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Near Threatened = 7,644
Lower Risk/conservation dependent = 180 (this is an old category that is gradually being phased out of The IUCN Red List)
Least Concern = 66,469
Data Deficient = 17,878
The figures presented above are only for those species that have been assessed for The IUCN Red List to date. Although not all of the world’s species have been assessed, The IUCN Red List provides a useful snapshot of what is happening to species today and highlights the urgent need for conservation action. Relative percentages for threatened species cannot be provided for many taxonomic groups on The IUCN Red List because they have not been comprehensively assessed. For many of these groups, assessment efforts have focused on threatened species; therefore, the percentage of threatened species for these groups would be heavily biased.