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Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study

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  1. 1.

    GAHMU is a network of researchers from different disciples concerned about diseases of great apes. It was created following the “1st Conference on: Diseases— the third major threat for wild Great Apes?” held in May 2004 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig

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    GRAET is a network of great ape scientists, molecular biologists, virologists, and veterinarians with the aim of developing innovative research partnerships to evaluate and implement effective Ebola control measures. It was created following an interdisciplinary meeting held in Washington, DC, in March 2005.

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Acknowledgments

I thank in particular the organizers of the workshop, Caroline Tutin, Christophe Boesch, and Diane Doran. I also thank Peter Walsh for his significant contribution during and after the workshop and to Mark Gately for developing and updating the website. The success of the workshop was in large part due to its participants: Kate Abernethy, Magdalena Bermejo, Allard Blom, Brenda Bradley, Chloe Cippoletta, Stephen Clifford, Jacqui Groves, Daniel Idiata Manbounga, Marie Laure Klein, Stephanie Latour, Alistair McNeilage, Florence Magliocca, Kelly McFarland, Tomo Nishihara, John Oates, Richard Parnell, Melissa Remis, Martha Robbins, Emma Stokes, Linda Vigilant, Liz Williamson, and Juichi Yamagiwa, with guests Nicola Anthony, Richard Bergl, Angelique Todd, and Jean Wickings. The workshop was hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology and funded by a grant from the USFWS Great Ape Conservation Fund. Finally, thank you to Tara Stoinski for representing the goals of western-gorilla.org at the AZA meeting in September 2002 and for inviting this manuscript.

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Stokes, E.J. (2008). Conservation Through Scientific Collaboration: Case Study—Western-gorilla.org. 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_15

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