African nations commit to saving chimps
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 13:01
in Biology & Nature
The nations of East and Central Africa have developed a 10-year action plan to save one of humankind's closest relatives -the eastern chimpanzee -from hunting, habitat loss, disease, and other threats, according to an announcement made today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).