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WWF Gorilla Expert, Project Featured in PBS Documentary
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WWF gorilla expert Chloe Cipolletta gives viewers an up-close look at the jungle's gentle giants.
photo: courtesy Nature |
Explore the Congo Basin with WWF gorilla expert Chloe Cipolletta as she gets up close and personal with a silverback gorilla and also reveals clues to what binds the animal and human world in the PBS 'Nature' miniseries Deep Jungle: The Beast Within, airing Sunday, May 1, at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
The finale of the extraordinary three-part miniseries Deep Jungle takes viewers into rarely seen parts of the world's most inaccessible rain forests for clues about the origins of humans and what our own future might hold. The final episode centers on Chloe, who takes viewers to WWF's gorilla habituation camp at Bai Hokou in the Dzanga Sangha Dense Forest Tropical Reserve. This former poaching site is now home to a permanent camp, nine clearings (or bais) and numerous western lowland gorillas.
It is here that Chloe has enlisted the help of the BaAka people in her effort to preserve the jungle's future. Expert trackers, the BaAka have lived in the forest for generations, and each day they accompany Chloe in search of the gorillas, the gentle giants of the forest. The team studies what the gorillas eat, what they "leave behind" and, slowly but surely, gain their trust. In Deep Jungle, viewers share the exciting experience of tracking with Chloe and, in a heart-stopping moment, learn what happens when a male adult gorilla questions the intent of his human followers.
The goals of the WWF project include increasing understanding of these elusive animals and providing government and local communities an incentive to protect their forest home by demonstrating the opportunities for economic development based on gorilla ecotourism.
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