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The Chimpanzee Conservation Center is a sanctuary created in 1997 in Guinea, in the Haut Niger National Park, to cope with the emergency situation in which the chimpanzee populations found themselves. The objective is threefold: - collect orphaned chimpanzees, victims of poaching and illegal trafficking in live...

Reintroduction of cinereous vultures in Verdon (France) The griffon and cinereous vultures having disappeared from the Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur region, many actors have mobilized to reintroduce these emblematic birds in the Gorges du Verdon. From 1999 to 2004, 91 griffon vultures (born in zoos or coming...

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All sub-species of tigers are facing serious threats: - poaching for skins and parts of their body, used in Traditionnal Medicine - deforestation - rarefaction of preys - conflicts with Humans, consequences of tigers attacks on livestock - consanguinity and diseases There are less than 4000 of them in the wild! Wildcats...

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