Open‐access platform to synthesize knowledge of ape conservation across sites

Heinicke, Stefanie; Ordaz‐Németh, Isabel; Junker, Jessica; Bachmann, Mona; Marrocoli, Sergio; Wessling, Erin G.; Byler, Dirck; Cheyne, Susan M.; Desmond, Jenny; Dowd, Dervla; Fitzgerald, Maegan; Fourrier, Marc; Goedmakers, Annemarie; Hernández‐Aguilar, R. Adriana; Hillers, Annika; Hockings, Kimberley J.; Jones, Sorrel; Kaiser, M. L.; Koops, Kathelijne; Lapuente, Juan; Maisels, Fiona; Riedel, Julia; Terrade, Emilien; Tweh, Clement; Vergnes, Virginie; Vogt, Tina; Williamson, Elizabeth A.; Kühl, Hjalmar S.

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“…At the time of analysis, only 3% of pixels included in mining areas had survey data stored in the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S. Database ( 11 ), and only 1% of the total area surveyed and archived in the A.P.E.S. Database overlapped with operational or preoperational mining areas (fig.…”

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“…Similarly, mining currently ranks only fourth in the frequency of reported threats across African ape sites documented in the Ape Populations, Environments and Surveys (A.P.E.S.) Wiki ( 10 ), 65 of 180 sites, i.e., 36% of all sites for which threats have been documented ( 11 ); and is preceded by hunting (89% of sites), logging (62%), and agricultural expansion (62%). However, given recent findings on the density of mining areas across Africa ( 2 ), these values might be a considerable underestimation of the real threat of mining to apes.…”

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Threat of mining to African great apes

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Quoss,

Valdez

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The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), seven major economies formed an alliance to enhance the sustainability of mining these essential decarbonization minerals. However, there is a scarcity of studies assessing the threat of mining to global biodiversity. By integrating a global mining dataset with great ape density distribution, we estimated the number of African great apes that spatially coincided with industrial mining projects. We show that up to one-third of Africa’s great ape population faces mining-related risks. In West Africa in particular, numerous mining areas overlap with fragmented ape habitats, often in high-density ape regions. For 97% of mining areas, no ape survey data are available, underscoring the importance of increased accessibility to environmental data within the mining sector to facilitate research into the complex interactions between mining, climate, biodiversity, and sustainability.

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“…We consulted the data in the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S. database (hereafter referred to as ‘A.P.E.S.’; ( 11 )) to determine whether survey data existed for sites that overlapped with mining areas and their 10 km buffers. Here, we only included mining areas within the distributional range of great apes (( 5 ), Table 1).…”

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“…Similarly, mining currently ranks only forth in the frequency of reported threats across African ape sites documented in the A.P.E.S. Wiki ( 10 ), 65 out of 180 sites, i.e., 36% of all sites for which threats have been documented; ( 11 ) and is preceded by hunting (89% of sites), logging (62%), and agricultural expansion (62%). However, given recent findings on the density of mining areas across Africa ( 2 ), these values might be a considerable underestimation of the real threat of mining to apes.…”

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Threat of mining to African great apes

Junker,

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Valdez

et al. 2023

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The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), seven major economies formed an alliance to enhance the sustainability of mining these essential decarbonization minerals. However, there is a scarcity of studies assessing the threat of mining to global biodiversity. By integrating a global mining dataset with ape density distribution estimates, we explored the potential negative impact of industrial mining on African great apes. Our findings reveal that up to one-third of Africa's great ape population faces mining-related risks. This is especially pronounced in West Africa, where numerous mining areas overlap with fragmented ape habitats, often occurring in high-density ape regions. For 97% of mining areas, no ape survey data are available, underscoring the importance of increased accessibility to environmental data within the mining sector to facilitate research into the complex interactions between mining, climate, biodiversity and sustainability.

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“…Wiki, a recent collaborative effort to create an open-access platform that provides standardized research and conservation data at the study-site level for all ape taxa, with the aim of supporting collaborations across sites and promoting successful conservation decisionmaking (https://apeswiki.eva.mpg.de/index.php). There is already information for numerous chimpanzee study sites in the Wiki, including 59 in West Africa for the critically endangered Pan troglodytes verus at the time of writing this chapter (Heinicke et al, 2021).…”

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Collaboration and Open Science Initiatives in Primate Research

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Traditionally, primate cognition research has been conducted by independent teams on small populations of a few species. Such limited variation and small sample sizes pose problems that prevent us from reconstructing the evolutionary history of primate cognition. In this chapter, we discuss how large-scale collaboration, a research model successfully implemented in other fields, makes it possible to obtain the large and diverse datasets needed to conduct robust comparative analysis of primate cognitive abilities. We discuss the advantages and challenges of large-scale collaborations and argue for the need for more open science practices in the field. We describe these collaborative projects in psychology and primatology and introduce ManyPrimates as the first, successful collaboration that has established an infrastructure for large-scale, inclusive research in primate cognition. Considering examples of large-scale collaborations both in primatology and psychology, we conclude that this type of research model is feasible and has the potential to address otherwise unattainable questions in primate cognition.

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Open‐access platform to synthesize knowledge of ape conservation across sites

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