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'''1. Development impact mitigation''' <br>
1.1 Provide sacrificial rows of crops on outer side of agricultural fields <br>
1.2 Pay farmers to cover the costs of non-harmful strategies to deter apes from agricultural fields <br>
1.3 Prohibit (livestock) farmers from entering protected areas <br>
1.4 Farm more intensively and effectively in selected areas and spare more natural land <br>
1.5 Install mechanical barriers or use natural hedges to deter apes <br>
1.6 Change of crop (i.e. to a crop less palatable to apes) <br>
1.7 Plant crops favoured by apesaway from primate areas <br>
1.8 Use set-aside areas of natural habitat (e.g., mining, logging, agricultural areas) <br>
1.9 Install green bridges (overpasses) or canopy bridges over transportation or service corridors <br>
1.10 Reduce road widths <br>
1.11 Avoid building roads in key habitat or migration routes <br>
1.12 Use selective logging instead of clear-cutting <br>
1.13 Avoid/minimize logging of important food tree species for primates <br>
1.14 Close non-essential roads as soon as mining/logging operations are complete <br>
1.15 Certify products from agriculture, mining or logging and market them as "ape friendly" <br>
1.16 Provide domestic meat to workers of a logging/mining project to reduce hunting <br>
1.17 Reduce noise pollution by restricting development activities to certain times of the day/night <br>
'''2. Counter-wildlife crime''' <br>
2.1 Implement road blocks to inspect cars for illegal ape bushmeat <br>
2.2 Provide medicine to local communities to control killing of apes for medicinal purposes <br>
2.3 Conduct regular anti-poaching patrols <br>
2.4 Introduce ammunition tax <br>
2.5 Inspect bushmeat markets for ape species <br>
2.6 Regularly de-activate/remove ground snares <br>
2.7 Provide better equipment (e.g. guns) to anti-poaching ranger patrols <br>
2.8 Provide training to anti-poaching ranger patrols <br>
2.9 Strengthen/support/re-install traditions/taboos that forbid the killing of primates <br>
2.10 Inform hunters of the dangers (e.g., disease transmission) of handling ape meat <br>
2.11 Implement monitoring surveillance strategies (e.g. SMART) or use monitoring data to improve effectiveness of wildlife law enforcement patrols <br>
2.12 Implement community control of patrolling, banning hunting and removing snares <br>
2.13 Provide sustainable alternative livelihoods; establish fish- or domestic meat farms <br>
2.14 Employ hunters in the conservation sector to reduce their impact <br>
'''3. Species health''' <br>
3.1 Wear face-masks to avoid transmission of viral and bacterial diseases to primates <br>
3.2 Keep safety distance to habituated apes <br>
3.3 Limit time that researchers/tourists are allowed to spend with habituated apes <br>
3.4 Implement quarantine for people arriving at, and leaving the site <br>
3.5 Implement quarantine and veterinary screens of animals before reintroduction/translocation <br>
3.6 Ensure that researchers/tourists are up-to-date with vaccinations and healthy <br>
3.7 Regularly disinfect clothes, boots etc. <br>
3.8 Wear gloves when handling primate food, tool items, etc. <br>
3.9 Preventative vaccination of habituated or wild apes <br>
3.10 Treat sick/injured apes (no permanent vet on site) <br>
3.11 Implement continuous health monitoring (with permanent vet on site) <br>
3.12 Detect & report dead apes and clinically determine their cause of death to avoid disease transmission <br>
3.13 Implement a health programme for local communities <br>
3.14 Reduce garbage/human food waste to avoid ape injuries and disease transmission <br>
'''4. Education & awareness''' <br>
4.1 Educate local communities about apes and sustainable use <br>
4.2 Involve local community in ape research and conservation management <br>
4.3 Install billboards to raise ape conservation awareness <br>
4.4 Regularly play TV & radio announcements to raise ape conservation awareness <br>
4.5 Implement multimedia campaigns using theatre, film, print media, discussions <br>
4.6 Integrate religion/local taboos into conservation education <br>
'''5. Protection & restoration''' <br>
5.1 Create buffer zones around protected ape habitat <br>
5.2 Legally protect ape habitat <br>
5.3 Establish areas for conservation which are not protected by national or international legislation (e.g. private sector standards & codes) <br>
5.4 Create natural habitat patches (including corridors) <br>
5.5 Demarcate and enforce boundaries of protected areas <br>
5.6 Habitat restoration (e.g., tree planting) <br>
5.7 Build fences to keep humans out <br>
5.8 Restrict number of people that are allowed access to site <br>
5.9 Resettle illegal human communities (i.e. in a protected area) to another location <br>
5.10 Use prescribed burning within the context of home range size and use <br>
5.11 Protect important food/nest trees before burning <br>
'''6. Species management''' <br>
6.1 Habituate primates to human presence to reduce stress from tourists/researchers etc. <br>
6.2 Guard habituated ape groups to ensure their safety/well-being <br>
6.3 Provide salt licks for apes <br>
6.4 Provide supplementary food for apes <br>
6.5 Provide additional sleeping platforms/nesting sites for apes <br>
6.6 Provide artificial water sources for apes <br>
6.7 Translocate (capture & release) wild apes from human impacted sites to natural habitat elsewhere <br>
6.8 Reintroduction of apes (captively-bred or rehabilitated indviduals) <br>
6.9 Rehabilitate injured/orphaned apes <br>
'''7. Economic & other incentives''' <br>
7.1 Provide monetary benefits to local communities for sustainably managing their forest and its wildlife (e.g., REDD, alternative income, employment) <br>
7.2 Provide non-monetary benefits to local communities for sustainably managing their forest and its wildlife (e.g. better education, infrastructure development) <br>
'''8. Permanent presence''' <br>
8.1 Run research project and ensure permanent human presence at site <br>
8.2 Run tourist projects and ensure permanent human presence at site <br>
8.3 Permanent presence of staff/manager <br>

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