Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why the link between long-term research and conservation is a case worth making
- 2 Links between research and Protected Area management in Uganda
- 3 The use of research: how science in Uganda's National Parks has been applied
- 4 Long-term research and conservation in Kibale National Park
- 5 Monitoring forest–savannah dynamics in Kibale National Park with satellite imagery (1989–2003): implications for the management of wildlife habitat
- 6 Long-term studies reveal the conservation potential for integrating habitat restoration and animal nutrition
- 7 Long-term perspectives on forest conservation: lessons from research in Kibale National Park
- 8 Health and disease in the people, primates, and domestic animals of Kibale National Park: implications for conservation
- 9 The importance of training national and international scientists for conservation research
- 10 Community benefits from long-term research programs: a case study from Kibale National Park, Uganda
- 11 Potential interactions of research with the development and management of ecotourism
- 12 The human landscape around the Island Park: impacts and responses to Kibale National Park
- 13 Conservation and research in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Masindi District, Western Uganda
- 14 Long-term research and conservation in Gombe National Park, Tanzania
- 15 Long-term research and conservation in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
- 16 The contribution of long-term research by the Taï Chimpanzee Project to conservation
- 17 The Green Corridor Project: long-term research and conservation in Bossou, Guinea
- 18 Long-term research and conservation of the Virunga mountain gorillas
- 19 Long-term research and conservation of great apes: a global future
- 20 Long-term research and conservation: the way forward
- Index
- References
15 - Long-term research and conservation in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why the link between long-term research and conservation is a case worth making
- 2 Links between research and Protected Area management in Uganda
- 3 The use of research: how science in Uganda's National Parks has been applied
- 4 Long-term research and conservation in Kibale National Park
- 5 Monitoring forest–savannah dynamics in Kibale National Park with satellite imagery (1989–2003): implications for the management of wildlife habitat
- 6 Long-term studies reveal the conservation potential for integrating habitat restoration and animal nutrition
- 7 Long-term perspectives on forest conservation: lessons from research in Kibale National Park
- 8 Health and disease in the people, primates, and domestic animals of Kibale National Park: implications for conservation
- 9 The importance of training national and international scientists for conservation research
- 10 Community benefits from long-term research programs: a case study from Kibale National Park, Uganda
- 11 Potential interactions of research with the development and management of ecotourism
- 12 The human landscape around the Island Park: impacts and responses to Kibale National Park
- 13 Conservation and research in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Masindi District, Western Uganda
- 14 Long-term research and conservation in Gombe National Park, Tanzania
- 15 Long-term research and conservation in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
- 16 The contribution of long-term research by the Taï Chimpanzee Project to conservation
- 17 The Green Corridor Project: long-term research and conservation in Bossou, Guinea
- 18 Long-term research and conservation of the Virunga mountain gorillas
- 19 Long-term research and conservation of great apes: a global future
- 20 Long-term research and conservation: the way forward
- Index
- References
Summary
THE START OF RESEARCH BY JAPANESE SCIENTISTS
Japan's study of great apes began in 1958, when Kinji Imanishi and Jun'ichiro Itani of the Japan Monkey Centre Gorilla Expedition left for Africa in search of a site for the study of gorillas. The research target was later changed to the chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of Tanzania because of political disturbances in eastern Congo, and their search continued for 3 years. At four sites in western Tanzania, the researchers used three different methods in attempts to habituate chimpanzees: planting food crops such as banana and sugarcane (provisioning), presenting a tame infant chimpanzee, and making contact with wild chimpanzees without any form of artificial intervention (Nishida, 1990).
In 1965, Nishida tried to attract chimpanzees by planting sugarcane in the Kasoje area, along the western foot of the Mahale Mountains. In March 1966, K group chimpanzees began to visit the plantation, and in 1968 the M group started visiting. Because the feeding area happened to be inside the overlapping areas of the two unit groups (“communities”), it was possible to elucidate the social units among chimpanzees, antagonistic relationships between groups, and the female transfer system (Nishida, 1968; Nishida and Kawanaka, 1972). The Mahale Mountains Chimpanzee Research Project has continued ever since.
CONSERVATION
Nishida realized the need to conserve the chimpanzee habitat as early as 1967. He was disturbed by the felling of trees in the preferred forests of K group chimpanzees and feared that the forests would disappear forever.
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- Science and Conservation in African ForestsThe Benefits of Longterm Research, pp. 173 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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