State of the Apes
Disease, Health and Ape Conservation
The State of the Apes series examines threats to ape species and their habitats within the broader context of economic and community development. Each publication presents a different theme, providing an overview of how these factors interconnect and affect the current and future status of apes. Presenting robust statistics, welfare indicators, and data from official and various other reports, the series provides an objective and rigorous analysis of relevant issues. This book, the fifth volume of the series, is focused on disease, health, and ape conservation.
- Publication Details
- Contents
- About the Editors
DATE PUBLISHED: 2023
FORMAT: Hardback, paperback and e-edition
ISBN 978-1-316-51307-1 Hardback ISBN 978-1-009-06998-4 Paperback
LENGTH: 463 pages
DIMENSIONS: 247 x 190 x 17 mm
Table of Contents
The Arcus Foundation
Notes to Readers
Acknowledgments
Apes Overview
SECTION 1
Introduction to Section 1: Disease, Health and Ape Conservation
Chapter 1: Review of Ape Disease and Health
Chapter 2: The Role of One Health at the Human–Ape Interface
Chapter 3: The Impact of Tourism and Research Activity on Ape Health
Chapter 4: Managing Ape Health: Informing Interventions
Chapter 5: Ape Health and Ethics
Chapter 6: Disaster Management and the Protection of Apes
SECTION 2
Introduction to Section 2: The Status and Welfare of Great Apes and Gibbons
Chapter 7: Status of Apes: Impacts of Industrial Development Projects on Apes
Chapter 8: The Welfare and Status of Captive Apes
Annexes
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary
References
Index
Arcus Foundation
The Arcus Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that advances social justice and conservation goals. The Foundation works globally and has offices in New York City and Cambridge, UK.
For more information, visit arcusfoundation.org.
Great Apes & Gibbons Program
The long-term survival of humans and the great apes is dependent on how we respect and care for other animals and our shared natural resources. The Arcus Foundation seeks to increase respect for and recognition of the rights and value of the great apes and gibbons, and to strengthen protection from threats to their habitats. The Arcus Great Apes & Gibbons Program supports conservation and policy advocacy efforts that promote the survival of great apes and gibbons in the wild and in sanctuaries that offer high-quality care, safety, and freedom from invasive research and exploitation.
Connect with Arcus Foundation’s Great Apes & Gibbons Program on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
Alison White, Arcus Foundation—Great Apes & Gibbons Program Officer, Research, Learning & Evaluation
Alison White has 25 years of experience in project management, covering community development, community tourism, cultural advocacy, environmental sustainability, marketing, and publication coordination and editing. She holds a master’s of science in tourism and conservation from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent and a bachelor’s of science in environmental studies from Manchester Metropolitan University. Alison has worked in Botswana, Gabon, South Africa, Uganda, the UK, and the USA. She helped to set up the Uganda Community Tourism Association (UCOTA) in 1998 and worked with the communities to build capacity until 2001. She co-compiled and edited Voices of the San: Living in Southern Africa Today (2004) and has been the production coordinator and editor of the Arcus Foundation publication series State of the Apes since its inception in 2012. In 2020, Alison joined the Arcus Foundation’s Great Apes & Gibbons team as a program officer, and she manages a portfolio of grants across Africa and Southeast Asia. Alison is a member of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Great Apes and Section for Human-Primate Interactions.
Steve Unwin, University of Birmingham then Wildlife Health Australia
Steve Unwin graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in ecology and veterinary science. He has worked as a wildlife clinician in several zoos, wildlife rehabilitation centers, and conservation projects in Australia, Thailand, Cameroon, and UK, and in academia in the UK and Australia. Steve is a European specialist in zoo health management and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. He has helped create and coordinate international, multidisciplinary ape health networks in Africa (Pan African Sanctuary Alliance-PASA) and Southeast Asia (the Orangutan Veterinary Advisory Group-OVAG).
He is now part of the team at Wildlife Health Australia as Program Manager for International One Health and heads the new World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Collaborating Centre for Wildlife Health Risk Management.
As a systems thinker in the One Health space, Steve aims to be part of the collective mitigating adverse environmental health impacts from human activity at the human-wildlife interface in the Indo-Pacific region through interdisciplinary research, capacity development, and effective networked risk management. Steve’s research interests focus on wildlife infectious diseases, especially zoonoses, health risk analysis, and improving mental health of wildlife health practitioners.
Annette Lanjouw, Arcus Foundation—Chief Executive Officer
Annette Lanjouw is a behavioral ecologist and primatologist who has worked for four decades to research and ensure the conservation of apes. She has focused her work on chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas in the wild, and extensively in conservation strategy and building stronger approaches in program implementation. For 15 years, Annette was director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, which works to conserve mountain gorillas inhabiting the forests straddling the borders of Rwanda, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also served as scientific advisor to world-renowned wildlife filmmaker Alan Root, and was the Central Africa program officer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, project manager and field director for the Frankfurt Zoological Society’s Chimpanzee Conservation Project in eastern DRC, international program officer for the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and regional director for Fauna & Flora International. Annette has worked at Arcus since 2007, first as the director for the Great Apes & Gibbons Program and currently as the foundation’s Chief Executive Officer and the head of its Great Apes & Gibbons Program.
A native of the Netherlands, Annette holds a BSc in zoology and psychology from Victoria University in New Zealand, and a doctorandus degree in behavioral ecology from the Rijks Universiteit in the Netherlands. She is scientific advisor to the Trust for African Rock Art, vice chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group, and a member of the IUCN Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group and World Commission on Protected Areas. She is also a board trustee of Fauna & Flora International, Virunga Foundation, Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, and the Ol Pejeta Conservancy.
Katy Scholfield, Arcus Foundation—Great Apes & Gibbons Program Director of Strategic Grantmaking
Katy Scholfield joined the Great Apes & Gibbons Program at Arcus Foundation in 2021 after 10 years at Synchronicity Earth, most recently as head of biocultural diversity, where she co-led programs and led efforts to center Indigenous rights and the revival and protection of biocultural diversity across the organization. During her tenure, she played a key role in developing the organization’s forest grantmaking in Africa, Brazil, and Papua New Guinea, as well as establishing collaborative funding initiatives to amplify conservation impact. Prior to this, Katy held various conservation and development posts before completing her doctor of philosophy degree, which used a case study of mountain gorilla conservation to explore how different people and their ideas are included or excluded in conservation. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in environment, ecology, and economics from the University of York and a master’s in environment and development from the University of Manchester. Katy sits on the executive committee of the AgroEcology Fund; is a trustee for Synchronicity Earth USA; and is a member of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group’s Section on Great Apes.
Helga Rainer—Arcus Foundation at time of writing
Helga Rainer has over 25 years of international and environmental development experience. Woven throughout her professional history, her work as a consultant, researcher, grantmaker, and organizer for environmental and development projects has made her an expert in developing policy, strategies, and programs. During her tenure as the conservation director for the Arcus Foundation, she conceived and was lead editor for the State of the Apes publication series.
Helga has efficaciously acted as an expert liaison between a variety of different stakeholders, including conservation leaders, policy makers, researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, corporations, and donors. This has included informing access to water and sanitation for women in informal settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh; facilitating dialogue between local communities and private and public sectors on ecotourism in Uganda; and advising world leaders on transboundary conservation.
An advocate of multi-disciplinary approaches, Helga has successfully leveraged multiple perspectives to inform shifts in how institutions engage with nature protection. Further building her transdisciplinary practice, Helga co-founded Borderlands Art, an agile space concerned with issues of environment, conflict, and repair that uses exhibitions, events, and research to foster critical inquiry and advocacy.
Helga has a doctorate in geography and environment from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and a master of science degree in environmental science, policy and planning from the University of Bath (UK). She is a member of several IUCN commissions and specialist groups, including the Section on Great Apes. Helga sits on several non-profit boards, including Greenpeace International, Wild Team UK, and 32o East, and previously served as the board chair for the Uganda Biodiversity Trust Fund.
