Kibale Chimps: The Extinction Arc Is Not What We Thought

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This episode explores the surprising growth of the chimpanzee population in Uganda's Kibale National Park, challenging expectations about survival in the Anthropocene.

Send us Fan Mail For 30 years, scientists in Uganda's Kibale National Park have been watching a community of wild chimpanzees. What they found upends every expectation about survival in the Anthropocene: the population hasn't declined. It has grown. This episode of Heliox dives deep into the Kanyawara chimpanzee community study — one of the longest-running continuous primate research projects on Earth — and explores the stunning, paradoxical success story behind it. We examine how forest rege...

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Host: SC Zoomers

Topics covered

• chimpanzees
• conservation
• Anthropocene
• wildlife research
• population growth

Keywords

• chimpanzees
• Kibale National Park
• population growth
• Anthropocene
• wildlife research
• conservation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kanyawara chimpanzee community study

Places: Kibale National Park, Uganda

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