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* Key threats to chimpanzees are agricultural encroachment and hunting.
* Key threats to chimpanzees are agricultural encroachment and hunting.
* Conservation activities have focused on education, patrolling, and preventing further degradation from farming activities.
* Conservation activities have focused on education, patrolling, and preventing further degradation from farming activities.
= Site characteristics =
Ankasa Conservation Area (National Park and Resource Reserve) is located in the South Western part of Ghana, borderingIvory Coast. The Park is one of the few remnants of undisturbed Tropical Rainforest in Ghana. It was created in 1976. The site is very rich in biodiversity including forest elephants, bongos, leopards, olive colobus, black and white colobus, mangabey and other monkeys, yellow backed duikers and other duikers, pangolins, over 200 species of birds recorded, over 600 species of butterflies etc. The area is one of the known World Bird Areas and a Key Biodiversity Area (Ofori-Amanfo, R. pers. comm. 2023).