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Hainan gibbons

Artificial rope bridges help stop rare primates jumping to extinction

15 October 2020

A landslide created a perilously wide gap in the forest canopy on China’s Hainan Island, so researchers made rope bridges to help the endangered Hainan gibbons get across
elephants

Ivory Coast’s elephant populations are now in catastrophic decline

14 October 2020

Named for its elephants, Ivory Coast once had one of the largest elephant populations in West Africa. Now there are just hundreds left

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