Researchers examine consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African great apes as they have become restricted to ever-smaller populations. Despite the work of dedicated conservationists, efforts to save our closest living relatives from ecological extinction are largely failing, and new scientific approaches are necessary to analyze major threats and find innovative solutions.