Good News Stories » forests http://goodnewsstories.org Good News Stories from around the World Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Good news for a close relative http://goodnewsstories.org/new-congo-bonobo-reserve/ http://goodnewsstories.org/new-congo-bonobo-reserve/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 10:21:56 +0000 admin http://goodnewsstories.org/?p=51 bonoboGood news for one of the lesser known great ape species! A partnership between local villages and conservation groups, headed up by the Bonobo Conservation Initiative, has led to the creation of a new 1,847 square mile (4,875 square kilometre) reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The reserve will save some of the region’s last pristine forests: ensuring the survival of the embattled bonobo—the least-known of the world’s four great ape species—and protecting a wide variety of biodiversity from the Congo peacock to the dwarf crocodile.

However, the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve is worth attention for another reason: every step of its creation—from biological surveys to reserve management—has been run by the local Congolese NGO and villages of Kokolopori.

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