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Available African great ape layers
Species
Shapefile
GeoJSON
Year
Description
Source
All African great apes except bonobos and Grauer's gorillas
Predicted African great ape density distribution shapefile (ZIP; 568 KB)
Predicted African great ape density distribution geojson (ZIP; 2.55 MB)
2015
The layer is the first attempt to model continent-wide great ape density distribution from site-level estimates of African great ape abundance. Populations in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and South Sudan are excluded due to excessively high estimates.
Ordaz-Németh, I., Sop, T., Amarasekaran, B., Bachmann, M., Boesch, C., Brncic, T., ... & Kühl, H. S. (2021). Range‐wide indicators of African great ape density distribution. American journal of primatology, 83(12), e23338.
All African great apes
African great ape abundance per site shapefile (ZIP; 9.68 MB)
African great ape abundance per site geojson (ZIP; 37.7 MB)
Compilation of all polygons from all sites where great apes population abundance was estimated.
IUCN SSC APES Database 2020
Western chimpanzees
Western chimpanzee density distribution tif - original (ZIP; 9.68 MB)
Western chimpanzee density distribution geojson (ZIP; 37.7 MB)
Range-wide predictions of chimpanzee density based on density distribution model.
2015
Heinicke, S., Mundry, R., Boesch, C., Amarasekaran, B., Barrie, A., Brncic, T., ... & Kühl, H. S. (2019). Advancing conservation planning for western chimpanzees using IUCN SSC APES—the case of a taxon-specific database. Environmental Research Letters, 14(6), 064001.