Chimpanzee population: Threats and Conservation
Chimp population Overview : T hreats and conservation Written by Uthman OYEBAMIJI Chimpanzee source: SPL Did you know? Chimpanzees have the largest geographical range in population of all the great apes. They range throughout the African equatorial belt from Senegal in the west to Tanzania in the E ast ern-Africa . Due to their high dependence on forest ecosystem wild chimpanzees are not habituated to human presence. And it is much harder to know how many are in a given area. Chimps make nest, Instead of counting chimps, researchers sometimes count nests to get an estimate of chimpanzee abundance. These sleeping nest s are built every night and old ones are easy to find in the forest. Surveys of nests and other clues, it is believe d that there are about 175 to 300,000 chimpanzees left in the wild. C himpanzees are divided into four different subspecies, which differ genetically and even behaviorally. The populations of some of these are very small. Some sci