Best Practice Guidelines for the Re-introduction of Great Apes

Best Practice Guidelines for the
Re-introduction of Great Apes

Edited by Benjamin Beck, Kristina Walkup, Michelle Rodrigues,
Steve Unwin, Dominic Travis and Tara Stoinski

Cover photo: Teaching forest skills: Pre-release demonstration
of an appropriate food to an orangutan in a rehabilitation
program. A caregiver shows two juvenile females how to
eat termites. © Anne Russon

DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2007.SSC-OP.35.en
ISBN: 978-2-8317-1010-5

Layout by: Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at Conservation International

Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 35

Index

Information for this Title

Section I Executive Summary

Section II Context of Guidelines

Section III Definition of Terms

Section IV The Precautionary Principle

Section V Planning and Preparing for Re-introduction

Section VI Disease Risk and Veterinary Requirements

Section VII Transport and Release Strategy

Section VIII Post-Release Monitoring

Section IX Considerations for Translocation

Section X Acknowledgements

Section XI Bibliography

Key Contacts

Annex I. Decision Tree

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