Forest Conservation
Tropical forests carry environmental, social and economic global importance. Their decline makes their conservation a priority for ZSL.
Four per cent of tropical forest areas have been lost over the past decade. And within the remaining forests there has been substantial hunting and trapping which has been identified as a threat to 84 mammal species and subspecies in West and Central alone.
ZSL’s Bushmeat and Forests Conservation Programme addresses these issues through field projects, applied research, policy work and education activities.
Gorilla Conservation in Gabon
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The western lowland gorilla faces a multitude of threats, from loss of habitat to disease and the bushmeat trade. The largest populations of western lowland gorilla are found in Gabon and the Republic of Congo.
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Supporting management of DRC's Virunga National Park
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Virunga National Park is the oldest national park in Africa and contains the greatest range of habitats and highest vertebrate species diversity of any park in Africa. It was also the first park in Africa to be listed as a UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, but due to ongoing civil conflict in the region, in 1994 it was relisted as a World Heritage Site in Danger.
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Wildlife Wood Project
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The Wildlife Wood Project builds on ZSL bushmeat research and policy work, but shifts the focus more fully onto timber production in West and Central Africa.
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Bushmeat work in West and Central Africa
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Unsustainable levels of hunting are believed to threaten the survival of many target species around the world, particularly in the Tropics.
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Asian elephant conservation in Thailand
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Asian elephants are forest elephants and it is very hard to count them, but fewer than 50,000 are thought to survive in total.
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