Further declines of threatened primates in the Korup Project Area, south-west Cameroon

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Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-265

  Waltert, Matthias ^a   Lien, ^b,c,d,e   Faber, Koen ^b,f   Mühlenberg, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Korup Project   (Cameroon)

^c Göttingen University ^*  (Germany)

^d Conservation Development Component of the Korup Project ^*

^e Cameroon Bio monitoring Network   (Cameroon)

^f Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV)   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Hunting; Korup National Park; Participatory wildlife survey; Primates; Selective logging; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; POACHING; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIMATE; PROTECTED AREA; SELECTIVE LOGGING;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; KORUP NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS; CERCOPITHECUS ERYTHROTIS; CERCOPITHECUS MONA; COLOBINAE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS PREUSSI;

EID: 14644428649     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605302000479     Document Type: Article

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