Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

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• Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) are present in Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve.
• The population size is unknown.
• The chimpanzee population trend is unknown.
• This site has a total size of 481.7 km².
• Key threats to chimpanzees are logging, farming, and hunting.
• Information on conservation activities implemented at the site is lacking.

Site characteristics

Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve is located in southwestern Ghana, to the east of Bia National Park. The reserve was established in 1935 (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN 2019), and it consists of two forest blocks, one above and one below the Asempaneye-Kumasi road (Ernst et al. 2008). The highest peak at the site is 594 m (Ernst et al. 2008). In addition to the western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), other fauna found at the site include the western tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax dorsalis), royal antelope (Neotragus pygmaeus) (Oates 2006), olive colobus (Procolobus verus), black and white colobus (Colobus vellerosus) (Danquah et al. 2012), and a frog species discovered in the reserve, Arthroleptis krokosua (Ernst et al. 2008).

Table 1. Basic site information for Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

Species	'Pan troglodytes verus
Area	481.7 km²
Coordinates	Lat: 6.54 , Lon: -2.86
Type of site	Protected area (Forest Reserve)
Habitat types	Subtropical/Tropical Dry Forest,Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland Forest
Type of governance

IUCN habitat categories Site designations

Ape status

Traces of chimpanzees have been encountered during surveys, in 2005 (Oates 2006), 2006-2008 (Gatti 2010), and more recently in 2009 (Danquah et al. 2012), but population estimates are not available. The site has also been identified as the most likely to support a fairly large population of chimpanzees in Ghana (Caldecott & Miles 2005).

Table 2. Ape population estimates reported for Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

Species	Year	Occurrence	Encounter or vistation rate (nests/km; ind/day)	Density estimate [ind./ km²] (95% CI)	Abundance estimate (95% CI)	Survey area	Sampling method	Analytical framework	Source	Comments	A.P.E.S. database ID
Pan troglodytes verus	2005	Present				Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve	Interviews, Reconnaissance walk		Oates 2006	Reconnaissance walk
Pan troglodytes verus	2006-2008		0.0045			Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve	Line transects & recces		Gatti 2010	Reconnaissance walks were also conducted, and the total survey effort was 448.24 km
Pan troglodytes verus	2009	Present				Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve	Line transects		Danquah et al. 2012

Threats

The lowlands in Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve have been heavily logged in the past, but the forest in steeper areas has been less affected (Oates 2006). Illegal farming activities have also been found inside the reserve (Oates 2006). Another major threat to chimpanzees at the site is hunting, which appears to be very high (Oates 2006, Danquah et al. 2012).

Table 3. Threats to apes reported for Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

Category	Specific threats	Threat level	Description	Year of threat
7 Natural system modifications		Absent
9 Pollution		Absent
10 Geological events		Absent
12 Other threat		Absent
5 Biological resource use	5.1 Hunting & collecting terrestrial animals	High (more than 70% of population affected)	Hunting signs at the site have been frequently found, especially wire-snare traps (Oates 2006, Danquah et al. 2012	Ongoing (2006, 2012)
5 Biological resource use	5.3 Logging & wood harvesting	High (more than 70% of population affected)	The area has been heavily logged (Oates 2006)	Ongoing (2006)
1 Residential & commercial development	1.1 Residential areas	Present (unknown severity)	Villages are present in the reserve (Ernst et al. 2008)	Ongoing (2008)
2 Agriculture & aquaculture	2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops	Present (unknown severity)	Illegal cultivations patches of plantain, cocoyam, pepper, and marijuana found in the site (Oates 2006)	Ongoing (2006)
8 Invasive & other problematic species, genes & diseases		Unknown
11 Climate change & severe weather		Unknown

IUCN Threats list

Conservation activities

Information on conservation activities implemented at the site is lacking.

Table 4. Conservation activities reported for Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

Category	Specific activity	Description	Implementing organization(s)	Year of activity
5 Protection & restoration	5.2 Legally protect ape habitat	The site is designated as forest reserve since 1935 (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN 2019)		Ongoing (2019)

Conservation activities list (Junker et al. 2017)

Challenges

Table 5. Challenges reported for Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

Challenges	Specific challenges	Source	Year(s)
1 Site management	1.3 Corruption	Oates 2006

Enablers

Table 6. Enablers reported for Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

Enablers	Specific enablers	Source	Year(s)
1 Site management
2 Resources and capacity
3 Engaged community
4 Institutional support
5 Ecological context
6 Safety and stability

Research activities

No information on research activities has been documented.

Documented behaviours

Table 7. Behaviours documented for Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve

Behavior	Source
Not reported

References

Caldecott, J. O., & Miles, L. (Eds.). (2005). World atlas of great apes and their conservation. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.

Danquah, E., Oppong, S.K., Akom, E., and Sam, M. (2012) Preliminary Survey of Chimpanzees and Threatened Monkeys in the Bia-Goaso Forest Block in Southwestern Ghana. African Primates 7 (2): 163-174.

Ernst, R., Agyei, A.C. & Rödel, M.-O. (2008) A new giant species of Arthroleptis (Amphibia: Anura: Arthroleptidae) from the Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve, south-western Ghana. Zootaxa, 1697, 58–68.

Gatti, S. (2010) Community Forest Biodiversity Project: Status of primate populations in Protected Areas targeted under CFBP.W APCA and WD/FC, Accra. p. 42.

Oates, J. (2006) Primate Conservation in the Forests of Western Ghana. Unpublished report to the Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, Ghana.

UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2019), Protected Planet: [Krokosua Hills FoR*; The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA)/The Global Database on Protected Areas Management Effectiveness (GD-PAME)] [On-line], [11/2019], Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.

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