Sunderland-Groves, Jacqueline L.

An update on great ape population health, disease control and outbreak response

2025 Gilardi, Kirsten V. K. | Düx, Ariane | Gillespie, Thomas R. | Kalema-Zikusoka, Gladys | Leendertz, Fabian H. | Nze-Nkogue, Chimène | Patrono, Livia V. | Raphael, Jane | Sulistyo, Fransiska | Kambale Syaluha, Eddy | Whittier, Christopher A. |

Since publication of the 2015 Great Ape Health Guidelines, great ape tourism has continued to gain in popularity, and landscape conversion continues on a steep trajectory. In addition, there has been a tremendous amount of new scientific research on pathogens that infect wild great apes. Furthermore, the world experienced epidemics of Ebola (in West Africa from 2014–2016 and in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2018–2020) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023).

Takamanda : the biodiversity of an African rainforest

2003 Comiskey, James A. | Sunderland, Terry C. H. | Sunderland-Groves, Jacqueline L. |

Regional action plan for the conservation of the Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli)

2007 Bergl, Richard | Dunn, Andrew | Fotso, Roger Corneille | Imong, Inaoyom | Nicholas, Aaron | Nkembi, Louis | Oates, J.F. | Omeni, Fidelis | Sunderland-Groves, Jacqueline L. | Takang, Ebai | Williamson, Elizabeth A. |

The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) is recognized by IUCN as Critically Endangered, and is the most threatened taxon of ape in Africa. Work during the last two decades has revealed that fewer than 300 Cross River gorillas may remain, spread across an area of about 12,000 km2. The outlook for these apes is far from hopeless, but a concerted and sustained effort will be required if their long-term survival is to be assured.
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