Congo Basin, Part 3: Big challenges and big potential for apes

<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Recent research shows that great apes of the Congo Basin stand to lose up to 94% of their habitat due to climate change. In the world's only habitat of bonobos and mountain gorillas, time (and land) is running out to save them. Hunting, natural resource extraction, disease, and other human impacts threaten their prospects. </span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">On this episode of the Mongabay Explores podcast, we speak with </span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Terese Hart</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">, a researcher with the ICCN (the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature); </span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces= "true">Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">, a wildlife veterinarian and founder of the NGO Conservation Through Public Health; </span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces= "true">Kirsty Graham</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces= "true">, a researcher from the University of St Andrews; and </span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Sally Coxe</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">, co-founder and president from the Bonobo Conservation Initiative about the importance of great apes, the potential they have for the protection of the Congo rainforest, and the challenges that persist in protecting them.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">If you missed the first two episodes of this podcast series, please subscribe to Mongabay Explores wherever you get your podcasts from, or click on the links below: </span></p> <p><a class="editor-rtfLink" href= "https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/mongabay-explores-the-congo-basin-the-heart-of-the-world-is-at-a-turning-point/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces= "true">Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ is at a turning point</span></strong></a></p> <p><a class="editor-rtfLink" href= "https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/congo-basin-communities-left-ou