Bitter chocolate: Illegal cocoa farms threaten Ivory Coast primates
Monday, March 30, 2015 - 14:40
in Biology & Nature
Study co-author Gonedele Sere, on left, holds a cocoa plant found at an illegal farm in the Dassioko Forest Reserve in Ivory Coast. Researchers surveying for endangered primates in national parks and forest reserves of Ivory Coast found, to their surprise, that most of these protected areas had been turned into illegal cocoa farms, a new study reports.