British ethologist Jane Goodall said in a video on Friday that the situation of chimpanzees in Africa is now more worrying than when she began studying them 60 years ago.
“The situation for chimpanzees across their range in Africa is worse today than when I began studying them,” warned Jane Goodall in a video released to mark World Chimpanzee Day, which falls on Sunday, July 14.
Human population growth, habitat loss and destruction, poaching and illegal trade in offspring “as pets or for entertainment” are, according to Goodall, the main reasons for this decline, which has led to a population decline of around 100% in 20 African countries and caused its extinction in others.
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