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| What WWF programme is in northern Gabon? |
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| Minkebe has one of the largest populations of what four mammals? |
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Chimpanzees
Gorillas
Forest Elephants
Leopards |
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| Central African Regional Programme Office |
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| Who is the president of Ibonga? |
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| _____ Gabon Bushmeat Action Plan |
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| Shell Gabon Bushmeat Action Plan includes checkpoints on flights and along roads. |
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| Shell contributes to the Gamba Conservation Center. |
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| ____ serves as the only entry point to Loango South National Park. |
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| Loango South National Park serves as an outpost for ecotourism, offering _____ and _____. (plural, alpha) |
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| WWF provides a ____ ____ to the Loango South National Park lodge and park HQ. |
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| Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats |
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| One of the key goals of the Gamba Complex is to ... |
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| ... improve conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. |
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| Name five industries that threaten biodiversity in the Gamba Complex. |
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Agriculture
Fishing
Hunting
Logging
Oil & Gas |
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| What two national parks does the Gamba Complex encompass? (alpha) |
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| Loango and Moukalaba-Doudou. |
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| Loango National Park is in what quadrant of the Gamba Complex? |
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| Northwest quadrant of the Gamba Complex, located in southwestern Gabon. |
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| Moukalaba-Doudou is in what quadrant of the Gamba Complex? |
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| What is the scientific name for western and eastern gorillas? |
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| Gorilla gorilla spp and gorilla beringe spp |
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| What two regions of Africa do gorillas live? |
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| Tropical and subtropical central Africa |
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| What is the status of gorillas? |
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| Endantered to critically endangered |
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| What two types are western gorillas? |
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| Western lowland gorilla and Cross River gorilla |
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| What types of gorilla is a mountain gorilla? |
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| What is another name for the Eastern Gorilla? |
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| What are the four primary threats to gorillas? |
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Bushmeat
Habitat loss
Infectous disease
Wildlife trade |
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| What is the life expectancy of a gorilla in the wild? |
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| What is the population of the following four gorilla types: Cross River, Eastern, Mountain, and Western Lowland? |
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Cross River: 250-300
Eastern: unknown
Mountain: 786
Western Lowland: 100,000 |
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| What two components are key to WWF's conservation strategy for gorillas? |
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1) Improve effectiveness and capacity of protected areas
2) Stop illegal trade in gorilla products |
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| What year did WWF launch its African Great Apes Programme? |
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| When did UNESCO designate Dzanga-Sangha with World Heritage Status? |
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| What is the scientific name for African elephants? |
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| What is the status of African elephants? |
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| What is the population of African elephants? |
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| What is the life expectancy of an African elephant in the wild? |
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| Name five components to WWF's strategy in elephant conservation. |
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1) Slow the loss of habitat
2) Take anti-poach and anti-trade measures
3) Reduce conflict between humans and elephants
4) Conduct improved surveys
5) Enhance the capacity of local authorities to conserve and manage elephants. |
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| What is the scientific name for Bonobos? |
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| Tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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| What is the bonobo population? |
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| What are two threats to bonobos? |
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| Habitat loss and poaching |
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| What is the status for bonobos? |
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| What is the protected area for bonobos? |
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| Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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| What is the scientific name for chimpanzees? |
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| What is the status of chimpanzees? |
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| What is the population of champanzees? |
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| What is the life expectancy for chimpanzees? |
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| Name three threats to chimpanzees. |
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| Bushmeat, disease (ebola), and habitat loss. |
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| What is WWF doing to protect chimpanzees? |
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1) Establishing, strengthening, and maintaining protected areas such as TRIDOM (Cameroon, Republic of Congo, and Gabon) and Minkebe Conservation Project
2) Promoting ecotourism
3) Stopping poaching |
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| With what Gabonese government agency does WWF work on the Minkebe Conservation Project? |
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| Ministry of Water and Forests. |
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| How many square kilometers is the Minkebe Conservation Project? |
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| What are the 13 national parks within Gabon? (alpha) |
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- Akanda National Park
- Batéké Plateau National Park
- Birougou National Park
- Crystal Mountains National Park
- Invindo National Park
- Loango National Park
- Lopé National Park
- Mayumba National Park
- Minkébé National Park
- Moukalaba-Doubou National Park
- Mwangé National Park
- Pongara National Park
- Waka National Park
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| What is the name of the partnership in which WWF participates abbreviated by CBFP? |
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| Congo Basin Forest Partnership |
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| In what area is the "treehouse" located? |
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| How many people/elephants live in the Gamba Complex? |
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| Compared to Yellowstone National Park, what size is the Gamba Complex? |
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| WWF became active in the Gamba Complex area when? |
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| What is CARPE, and what is its objective? |
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The Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment
It is a program run by USAID to promote sustainable natural resource management in the Congo Basin. |
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| Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment. It is an initiative of USAID, and promotes sustainable natural resource management in the Congo Basin. |
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| How many countries participate in CARPE? |
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| Nine. CARPE=the Central African Regional Program for the Environment, and is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative. |
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| What is the world's second-largest rainforest? |
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| The Western Congo Basin Moist Rainforest in Central Africa. |
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| What area is WWF's priority in Central Africa? |
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| What four projects are WWF's priorities in Central Africa? |
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Coastal Forests in Cameroon
Gamba Complex in Gabon
Jengi in Cameroon
Kudi-Zomba in Cameroon |
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| What four species are WWF's priority in Central Africa? |
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African Elephant
Bonobo
Chimpanzee
Gorilla |
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| What year did WWF establish its office in Central Africa? |
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| WWF's Central Africa office focuses on the Congo Basin, and supports what four countries? |
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Cameroon
Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Gabon |
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| The world's largest wildlife trade monitoring network. |
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| When did TRAFFIC open its Central Africa office? |
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| What subspecies of gorilla is known as "silverback gorilla?" |
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| In what two locations do mountain gorillas live? |
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| The Virunga range of extinct volcanic mountains on the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda, and in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. |
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| What cultural heritage do most Gabonese share? |
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| How many people live in Gabon? |
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| In what year did Gabon begin to emphasize green tourism over oil as the base of its economy? |
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| Who is the president of Gabon? |
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| The president of Gabon is Ali Bongo Ondimba. |
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| How many "landscapes" form the Congo Basin Forest Partnership," launched in 2002 |
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| 11 landscapes. It is a Type II agreement (aka non-binding) |
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| What is a WWF Global Ecoregion? |
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| It an area included a science-based ranking of the world's most biologically outstanding habitats. |
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| A trans-boundary forest landscape that is a WWF global ecoregion. |
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| What is the key criteria for a habitat to be declared a WWF Global Ecoregion? |
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| It must be the most outstanding example of a major habitat, thus be the unit of scale for comparisons and analysis of other like habitats. |
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| How many terrestrial major habitat types are there? |
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| How many freshwater major habitat types are there? |
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| How many marine major habitat types are there? |
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| What are WWF's six priority regions? |
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Amazon
Borneo
Coral Triangle
Himalayas
Madagascar
Mediterranean Sea |
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| Gabon is in which WWF priority place? |
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| How many WWF priority places are there? |
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| 35 (three in North America) |
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| To urgently change our course toward a healthy planet where people and nature thrive in a stable environment. |
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| How many elephants live in Gabon's forests? |
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| The world's largest population of ____ turtles nest on Gabon's beaches? |
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| What national park is Gabon's first UNESCO World Heritage Site? |
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| Lopé National Park in Gabon is famously home to _____. |
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| What is UNESCO an acronym for? |
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| United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
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| Name two successes of the Minkembe Programme. |
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1) 7567 square kilometers of primary forest granted strict protected status in the form of the Minkebe National Park.
2) Poaching reduced through agreements with logging companies and gold miners |
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| Name four threats to Minkebe area. |
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| Logging, poaching, mining, ebola virus. |
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| What does the acronym TRIDOM stand for? |
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| Tri-national DJA-Odzala Minkebe Project |
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| What six countries encompass the Congo Basin? |
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- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Republic of the Congo
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| How many hectacres of forest cover does the Congo Basin lose annually? |
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| The Congo Basin loses close to 1.5 million hectares of forest cover every year. |
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| What is TRIDOM an acronym for? |
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Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe Project |
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| What year did Gabon create 13 national parks? |
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| Who is the head of field programs for WWF in the Congo Basin region? |
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Bas Huijbregts
Head of field programs for WWF in the Congo Basin region |
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What is Ibonga's general objective?
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| Sensitize local communities on nature conservation, and participation in sustainable natural resource management. |
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| What are WWF's 20 'Flagship Species?" |
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- Bonobo
- Chimpanzee
- Dolphins (freshwater)
- Dolphins (marine)
- Elephants -African
- Elephants - Asian
- Giant panda
- Gorillas
- Leopard - Amur
- Leopard - Clouded
- Leopard - Snow
- Marine turtles
- Orangutan
- Polar bear
- Rhinos - African
- Rhinos - Asian
- Rock wallaby
- Tiger
- Tree kangaroo
- Whales
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| Relative to the largest river in the world, what size is the Congo River? |
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| The Congo River is the fifth longest river in the world (2,720 miles). It is also called the Zaïre River. |
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