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Critically endangered: Sory Keira interacts with a 12-year-old western chimpanzee through the enclosure fence at the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre in Somoria, Guinea. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES

Roads decimate West Africa’s chimpanzee population

The species face mounting pressure from roads and infrastructure development in Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read