Addressing challenges in enforcing guidelines to safeguard great apes, this chapter delves into issues of tourist non-compliance, the risks of disease transmission, and the importance of updated guidelines to prevent SARS-CoV-2 spread to wild ape populations.
The phenomenon of animals catching diseases from humans, called reverse zoonoses, has had a severe impact on great ape populations, often representing a bigger threat than habitat loss or poaching.
However, while many scientists and conservationists agree that human diseases pose one of the greatest risks to great apes today there are a few efforts under way to use a research-based approach to mitigate this problem.
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