According to UN information released in June at a meeting in Nairobi, in 2030, 90% of the habitat of the great apes in Africa and 99% in Asia will no longer exist. The first consequence is that orangutans, gibbons and bonobos will be extinct in the wild, followed by gorillas and chimpanzees.

The destruction of African and Asian forests by loggers, miners and planters of palm oil, for human beauty industry and for fuel, occupy each square centimeter of what is still occupied by native forest.

GAP Project Spain, together with the Limbe Sanctuary, in Cameroon, has made global warning about a subspecies of chimpanzee who lives between Cameroon and Nigeria, Pan troglodytes ellioti, who, along with the Cross River gorilla, is isolated on a small patch of forest, with only 2,500 individuals still alive.

An international communication of GAP Spain, signed by its Executive Director, Pedro Pozas Terrado, makes an appeal to international bodies, as well as to the African and Asian governments, that there are still remnants of free populations of great apes, to prevent this holocaust to happen.

If something is not done urgently, in 2030, or even earlier, we will decree the total extinction of most species of great apes on the planet.

A dark achievement for the human race, who is digging his own death by extinguishing species that keeps  biodiversity alive.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian

President, GAP Project International

Deforestation