Nearly 180,000 Bonobos, Chimps and Gorillas Threatened by Clean Energy Push

Mining for minerals and metals essential to a clean energy future may have unprecedented impacts on apes.Areas with high densities of great apes—including gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees—significantly overlap with the locations of African mines for these minerals, according to a new paper in the journal Science Advances. This puts one-third of all remaining apes in Africa at risk.In West Africa, in particular, around 80 percent of apes live within 19.3 square miles of mining operations.

Additionally, only 3 percent of mine land maps contain any A.P.E.S information, and 1 percent of ape survey data in A.P.E.S comes from mining companies.'Companies operating in these areas should have adequate mitigation and compensation schemes in place to minimize their impact, which seems unlikely, given that most companies lack robust species baseline data that are required to inform these actions,' study co-author Tenekwetche Sop, manager of the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S.

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