Bonobo

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Carvalho, J., Graham, B., Bocksberger, G., Maisels, F., Williamson, E. A., Wich, S., ...Maputla, N. & Kuehl, H. 2021. Predicting range shifts of African apes under global change scenarios. Diversity and Distributions, 27(9), pp.1663-1679.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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There are parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that do not make the news.

In spite of a history of political instability, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is an ecological paradise.

Kawamoto, Y., Takemoto, H., Higuchi, S., Sakamaki, T., Hart, J.A., Hart, T.B., Tokuyama, N., Reinartz, G.E., Guislain, P., Dupain, J. and Cobden, A.K., 2013. Genetic structure of wild bonobo populations: diversity of mitochondrial DNA and geographical distribution. PloS one, 8(3), p.e59660.