For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos face a bleak future thanks to a perfect storm of human-driven factors, a recent study shows. The triple whammy of the climate crisis, growing human population, and the clearing of wild areas could see Africa’s great apes lose 94% of their suitable living areas by 2050, researchers calculate. This massive range … Continue reading For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat