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The carbon credits project will be implemented in six national parks, which span 1.8 million hectares.

Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2023 - The discovery that chimpanzees use tools to fish for termites revolutionized our understanding of their abilities - but we still dont have crucial context to help us understand termite fishing and

<p>Termites are a crucial source of nutrients for chimpanzees, who fish for them with tools, but they’re not always accessible. Now, researchers copying chimpanzee tools and techniques have shown that chimpanzees living in western Tanzania can only reliably fish for termites in the early wet season, when other foods are abundant. These chimpanzees fish for termites because they can, not because they need to. The results raise the possibility that chimpanzees could even be predict...

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Conservationist and best-selling author Jane Goodall will receive the 2022 Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing at 2:30 p.m. July 10 at Concord-Carlisle High School.

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For the primatologist, a trip to Kenya in her twenties was the catalyst for a lifelong calling

Jane Goodall is a primatologist who is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on chimpanzees. She has spent 60 years studying the chimps that live in the Gombe Stream national park and she is a prominent advocate, via several foundations, of protecting the great apes and their habitats. She has been presented with awards by the UN and various governments for her conservation and environmental work. She appears in the Netflix...