Apes Reporting Project is a Project of Water Journalists Africa Dedicated to Conservation of the Endangered African Apes & their Habitat through Journalism
Mbarara, Uganda
Joined October 2020
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From 500 to just 200 chimpanzees: How tea plantations and human encroachment are fueling their decline in Burundi's Kibira National Park.
#KibiraNationalPark #Chimpanzees
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What if the future of a #forest was sitting in a classroom right now?
In Sierra Leone, the @Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary and the @goapefoundation are proving that conservation starts with children.
Here is how they did it. apesreportingproject.org/env…
So they tried something different.
Out with lectures. In with hands on learning.
Students built Rainforest in a Box models to simulate deforestation. They planted vegetable gardens. They performed drama about conservation for their communities.
We joined the @MeshaScience Beacons Newsroom Initiative in Nairobi. With discussion around how we can move beyond reporting only what went wrong and tell rigorous stories about responses, evidence, limitations and what comes next.
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"Giving young people the chance to learn about nature, ask questions, and help protect it is something that will stay with them for life." Rowena Facee Schaeffer, founder of the @goapefoundation
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#ApesStories #ConservationStories #Education
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Together with @apesstories, we will tell #communitycentred stories on climate, water and conservation, connecting lived realities with research, data and community led solutions.
We cannot wait to see these stories come to life. 🌍
#AfricaClimateBeacons #ClimateJournalism
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We have kicked off our 7 month journey under the #AfricaClimateBeacons Newsroom Initiative by @MeshaScience and the @soljourno
Our multimedia #climate journalists began with a refresher on #climate storytelling, #data journalism and evidence based #solutionsreporting.
Gorillas are forest gardeners, complex social beings and close relatives of ours, sharing about 98 to 99% of our DNA.
But poaching, habitat loss, mining, agriculture and disease continue to threaten them.
#WorldGorillaDay #GreatApes #GorillaConservation
Mountain gorilla conservation shows that sustained protection and community partnerships can make a difference.
Protect gorillas. Protect their forests. Support the communities living alongside them.
#WorldGorillaDay #ApesStories #ApesReportingProject #Conservation #Gorilla
420 pupils. 12 schools. 35% jump in environmental knowledge.
Sierra Leone's Tacugama Kids Environmental Education Programme swapped textbooks for tree planting, school gardens and a Rainforest in a Box experiment using a colander as rain.
Story:apesreportingproject.org/env…
The question worth asking: how do you make conservation feel real to kids growing up beside a national park?
#ApesReportingProject #ConservationEducation #SierraLeone #TeacherTraining #Tacugama
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We have been selected as 1 of 6 for the inaugural Africa Climate Beacon Newsroom Initiative.
Through our fellowship with the @soljourno & @MeshaScience, we look forward to strengthening solutions focused climate reporting that puts evidence & communities at the centre.
Protecting great apes means protecting the forests they depend on. And protecting those forests also means protecting the biodiversity, climate systems & communities connected to them.
Learn more: apesreportingproject.org/
#GreatApes #Chimpanzees #Gorillas #Bonobos #Conservation
Conservation begins when people have enough knowledge to care.
#Science gives us the evidence to understand Africa’s great apes, their behaviour, their ecosystems and the threats they face.
Photos credit: @Marlondutoit
Reference: carta.anthropogeny.org/
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6.7 million hectares of primary #rainforest gone in 2024. Nearly the size of Panama. Worst year in two decades.
That is 18 football fields lost every minute.
DRC & Republic of Congo just recorded their highest ever forest loss, #ape habitat included.
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"Rewilding is core to our mission and our staff have been caring for these gorillas & preparing for this moment for over 15 years," said Katie Fawcett of @GRACEgorillas
This is what a #conservation win looks like when science, community, and decades of commitment come together.
"The gorillas surprised us by how quickly they wanted to leave the enclosure to go into the forest."
After 15 years of #rehabilitation at GRACE sanctuary in eastern DRC, The 4 #gorillas walked back into the wild on December 3, 2024.
Full Story: apesreportingproject.org/con…
Can you hear it? The beautiful natural sounds of the forest? Proof of life and a thriving ecosystem, this is what the Great Apes need always. It is the sound of home. #ApesStories #ApesReportingProject #viral #gorilla
Video: @ask_me_about_gorilla_
Skippy was 1 year old when she was found in a Freetown market, malnourished, with infected rope burns around her leg.
Her mother was likely killed so she could be sold as a pet. Western #chimpanzee populations have dropped 80% in 25 years.
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