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Kipunji conservation status assessment, Anglia Ruskin University

Field Study

Kipunji conservation status assessment, Anglia Ruskin University

Location of field site: Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania , Africa

Project Director: Trevor Jones

Contact Person: Trevor Jones , tembomkubwa@gmail.com , E-mail: tembomkubwa@gmail.com

Mailing address: East Road , Cambridge , CB1 1PT UK

Research Objectives: To survey the maximum possible range of this newly-discovered primate in the Udzungwa Mountains, to make informed estimate of abundance and IUCN red list assessment; to collect preliminary ranging, feeding and other ecological data; and to assess threats and make conservation recommendations.

Field Positions and Volunteers: Field assistants already recruited in-country. I am not currently able to support volunteers. Enquiries welcome.

Species Studied: Kipunji (Rungwecebus kipunji)

Other Species Found At Site: Procolobus gordonorum, Colobus angolensis palliatus, Cercopithecus mitis ssp., Galagoides orinus

Affiliations: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, Fauna and Flora International

Project Begin/End Dates: Sept 2005 - June 2006

Web Site: http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/fst/departments/lifesciences/staff/trevor_jones.html

Entry created: 2005-09-22
Review requested: never
Entry last reviewed: 2006-05-26

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