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This chapter represents the energies, ideas, and activity of many individuals and organizations, including Christophe Boesch, Debby Cox, Sally Coxe, Doug Cress, Jim Else, Takeshi Furuichi, Michele Goldsmith, Jane Goodall, Chie Hashimoto, Holly Hazard, Jan van Hooff, Gilbert Isabirye-Basuta, Jamie Jones, Sonya Kahlenberg, Cheryl Knott, Sarah Luick, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Martin Muller, Dale Peterson, Herman Pontzer, Ian Redmond, Vernon Reynolds, Tony Rose, Norm Rosen, Anne Russon, John Scherlis, Craig Stanford, Janette Wallis, David Watts, Steven Wise, and Juichi Yamagiwa. Particular thanks go to David Burmon and Kayo Burmon for their development of Great Ape World Heritage Species Project, Inc., and to the Glaser Progress Foundation for funding the Chimpanzee Collaboratory. GAWHSP also appreciates the support of the Alexander Abraham Foundation, the Carr Foundation, and the Shared Earth Foundation. TN thanks the Global Environment Research Fund from the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
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Wrangham, R.W., Hagel, G., Leighton, M., Marshall, A.J., Waldau, P., Nishida, T. (2008). The Great Ape World Heritage Species Project. In: Stoinski, T.S., Steklis, H.D., Mehlman, P.T. (eds) Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70721-1_14
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