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Chimpanzee enhancement programme
Bwindi has an estimated population of around 300 chimpanzees. These chimpanzees face the same threats as the Mountain Gorillas: habitat loss, communicable diseases and poaching/trafficking of the babies. Although today the world is all too fully aware of the impacts of pandemics and cross-species transmission of viruses, our work around Bwindi has taken this into account since 2016. The work of the Margaret Pyke Trust at Bwindi Community Hospital focuses on all three of the risk factors, by implementing our USHAPE family planning training programme and providing clinical outreach, and by including education on communicable diseases and poaching.
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.