Chester
Zoo team on the hunt for new species in Nigeria
A team from Chester Zoo is heading to a remote,
mountainous region in Nigeria to assess what species live in an area where few
surveys have been conducted.They are set to carry out the first biodiversity
assessment in the Gashaka Gumti
National Park.
The area is said to be home to the last viable population of the endangered
Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti).The 12-strong
team will travel out to Nigeria in late March for two weeks."Obviously it
would be great to find a big, sexy bug or frog but it is hard to tell you how
likely that will be because we do not know what is there," explained
Chester Zoo director general Mark Pilgrim.
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