Why Chimpanzees Are Endangered And What We Can Do
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed chimpanzees as endangered for the first time in 1996 after studies predicted a 50% reduction in the global population between 1975 and 2050. The Jane Goodall Foundation estimates there are between 172,000 and 300,000 chimpanzees left in the wild, a far cry from the one million that existed at the turn of the century. One of the four distinct subspecies—the western chimpanzee found mainly in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra Leone—is considered critically endangered....