LONDON - HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) tonight presented one of the world's top prizes for grassroots nature conservation - a Whitley Award - to Louis Nkembi of Cameroon, for his work to introduce community-based landscape and biodiversity management to the Lebialem Highlands - a refuge for many rare plants, birds and other animals, including chimpanzees, drills and Africa's most endangered great ape, the cross river gorilla.
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Princess presents top conservation accolade to Cameroon's Louis Nkembi
- Wednesday, 12 May 2010 00:00
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LONDON - HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) tonight presented one of the world's top prizes for grassroots nature conservation - a Whitley Award - to Louis Nkembi of Cameroon, for his work to introduce community-based landscape and biodiversity management to the Lebialem Highlands - a refuge for many rare plants, birds and other animals, including chimpanzees, drills and Africa's most endangered great ape, the cross river gorilla.
Hunt for rarest gorillas in Africa
- Tuesday, 23 March 2010 12:36
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The Cross River Gorillas, the rarest gorillas in the world, live along the border of Nigeria and Cameroon. CNN travels into the remote jungle to try to get a glimpse of the critically endangered primate and see what is being done to protect the few remaining.
Ian Redmond and Princess Odette Autograph Gorilla Paintings in Support of Great Ape Conservation
- Friday, 26 June 2009 00:00
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During the recent International Year of the Gorilla Symposium, Ian Redmond - Ambassador for the UN Year of the Gorilla - and Princess Odette Maniema Krempin - UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - signed special editions of Daniel Taylor’s Mountain gorilla and Cross River gorilla art works.
Conservation Groups Launch Campaign to Save Last Cross River Gorillas
- Friday, 27 March 2009 09:43
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Following the declaration of 2009 as the Year of the Gorilla, the African Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) are launching a special campaign aimed at raising awareness about the plight of the Cross River Gorilla. 
Cameroon moves to protect rarest gorilla
- Friday, 05 December 2008 14:43
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The government of Cameroon has created a national park to help protect the world's most endangered great ape: the Cross River gorilla, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a group that provided scientific and technical support for the initiative.
