{"id":2292,"date":"2014-07-10T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2014-07-10T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:14:56","slug":"palm-oil-agriculture-could-means-trouble-for-africas-great-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/palm-oil-agriculture-could-means-trouble-for-africas-great-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm oil agriculture could means trouble for Africa&#8217;s great apes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2228\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64b5502047ace6d9c5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2228\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64b5502047ace6d9c5.png\" alt=\"Chimps feed on oil palm fruit. (Photo Credit: Henry Camara-Bossou)\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64b5502047ace6d9c5.png 432w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64b5502047ace6d9c5-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chimps feed on oil palm fruit. (Photo Credit: Henry Camara-Bossou)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The booming oil palm industry in West and Central Africa could have a negative impact on great apes, a new study shows. The authors estimate that nearly 40% of the distribution of great ape species on unprotected lands overlaps with suitable oil palm areas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The countries most at risk are Gabon, Congo, and The Democratic Republic of Congo. Authors call for guidelines such that oil palm agriculture can develop in a way that will not harm great apes such as gorillas and chimpanzees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(14)00680-0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Current Biology<\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 10, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ljmu.ac.uk\/NSP\/124306.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Serge A. Wich<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The booming oil palm industry in West and Central Africa could have a negative impact on great apes, a new study shows. The authors estimate that nearly 40% of the distribution of great ape species on unprotected lands overlaps with suitable oil palm areas. The countries most at risk are Gabon, Congo, and The Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,174,1894,170,113,1445,171,215],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-animals","tag-apes","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64b5502047ace6d9c5.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-AY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}