wildlife biologist, conservationist, writer
Publications (Rebecca Kormos/"Ham" Maiden Name
Aveling, C., Fay, J.M., Ham, R., Langrand, O., Sugal, C., White, L., Hart, J.A., Pilgrim, J., & Mittermeier, R.A. 2002. The Congo forests of Central Africa. In: Mittermeier, R.A., Mittermeier, C.G., Robles Gil, P., Pilgrim, J.D., Fonseca, G.A.B. da, Brooks, T.M., & Konstant, W.R. (Eds.). 2002. Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places. pp.108–133. Mexico City: CEMEX
Bakarr, M.I., Ampadu-Agyei, O., Adomako, E., & Ham, R. 2002. Bushmeat utilization, human livelihoods and conservation of large mammals in West Africa. In: Mainka, S.A., & Trivedi, M. (Eds.). Links between Biodiversity Conservation, Livelihoods and Food Security: The Sustainable Use of Wild Species for Meat. pp.45–54. Gland [Switzerland]: IUCN.
Bakarr, M. Bailey, B., Byler, D., Ham, R. Olivieri, & S. Omland, M. 2001. From the Forest to the Seas: Biodiversity Connections from Guinea to Togo. Conservation International, Washington DC.
Catterson, M, Boubacar, T, Diakite, D. & Ham, R. 2001. Programmatic Environmental Assessment of Co-Management of Reserved Forests in Guinea. International Resource Group.
Ham, R., Pilgrim, J., Winter, P., Warinwa, F., & Kormos, C. 2002. The Sudd. In: Mittermeier, R.A., Mittermeier, C.G., Robles Gil, P., Pilgrim, J.D., Fonseca, G.A.B. da, Brooks, T.M., & Konstant, W.R. (Eds.). 2002. Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places. pp.290–297. Mexico City: CEMEX.
Ham, R. 1998. Nationwide Chimpanzee Census and Large Mammal Survey: Republic of Guinea, European Union.
Heinicke, S, Mundry, R, Boesch, C, et al. Towards systematic and evidence‐based conservation planning for western chimpanzees. Am J Primatol. 2019; 81:e23042. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.2304
Humle, T. & Kormos, R. 2011. Chimpanzees in Guinea and in West Africa. In: Matsuzawa, T. and Humle, T. The chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba. Springer. p. 393-402.
Kormos, R. 2015. Biodiversity Offsetting in the US: Lessons Learned on Maximizing their Ecological Contribution. file:///C:/Users/Rebecca/Downloads/Biodiversity-offsetting-in-the-United-States-2015%20(5).pdf
Kormos R, Kormos CF, Humle T, Lanjouw A, Rainer H, Victurine R, et al. (2014) Great Apes and Biodiversity Offset Projects in Africa: The Case for National Offset Strategies. PLoS ONE 9(11): e111671. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111671
Kormos, R & Kormos C. 2011. Towards a Strategic National Plan for Biodiversity Offsets for Mining in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa With a Focus on Chimpanzees. Prepared for the ARCUS Foundation.
Kormos, R., Mittermeier, R. A., & Butynski, T. M. 2004. Great Ape Advisory Panel - the source for great ape
technical advice. Species, IUCN/SSC Newsletter, (41): 8-9.
Kormos, R., Mittermeier, R. A., & Butynski, T. M. 2004. Primate: An Action Plan for West African Chimpanzees.
Species, IUCN/SSC Newsletter, (41): 20.
Kormos, R., Boesch, C., Bakarr, M. I. & Butynski, T. (eds.). 2004. Chimpanzés d’Afrique de l’Ouest: Etat de Conservation de l’Espèce et Plan d’Action. Commission de la Sauvegarde des Espèces de l’UICN, Group de spécialistes de Primates, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 237pp.
Kormos, R., Boesch, C., Bakarr, M. I. & Butynski, T. (eds.). 2003. West African Chimpanzees. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Kormos, R. & Boesch, C. 2003. Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of Chimpanzees in West Africa. Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International,. Washington, DC. 25pp.
Kormos, R. & Boesch, C. 2003. Plan d’Action Régional pour la Conservation des Chimpanzés en Afrique de l’Ouest. Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, Washington, DC. 25pp.
Kormos R., Humle T., Carter J., Brugière, D., Fleury M.-C., Matsuzawa T., Sugiyama Y., Carter, J., Diallio, M.S. & Tounkara, E.O. 2003. Guinea. In: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan: The West African Chimpanzee (eds. R. Kormos, C. Boesch and M.I. Bakarr). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Kormos, R., Bakarr, M.I., Bonnehin, L. & Hanson-Alp, R. 2003. Bushmeat hunting as a threat to chimpanzees in West Africa. In: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan: The West African Chimpanzee (eds. R. Kormos, C. Boesch and M.I. Bakarr). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Kühl, H.S., Sop, T., Williamson, E.A., Mundry, R. et al. (2017). The Critically Endangered western chimpanzee declines by 80%. American Journal of Primatology 79: e22681.
McGrew, W.C., Ham, R.M. White, L.J.T. & Harrison, M.J.S. 1997. The primate community of the Lopé Reserve Gabon: Diets, responses to fruit scarcity and effects on biomass. American Journal of Primatology 42:1-24.
Mittermeier, R. A., Rylands, A. B., Konstant, W. R., Eudey, A. A., Butynski, T. M., & Ganzhorn, J. U., Rodriguez-Luna, E., Walker, S. & Kormos, R. 2004. Primates. Species (42): 65-66. July-December 2004.
Mittermeier, R., Valladares-Pádua, C., Rylands, A.,Eudey, A., Butynski, T., Ganzhorn, J., Kormos, R., Aguiar, J., & Walker, S. 2005. Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates. IUCN, International Primalotogical Society, Conservation International.
Oglethorpe, J., Shambaugh, J and Kormos, R. 2004. Parks in the crossfire: strategies for effective conservation in areas of armed conflict. In: PARKS: War and Protected Areas. IUCN, Glan, Switzerland.
Shambaugh, J., Oglethorpe, J., & Ham, R. 2000. The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment. Biodiversity Support Program.
Tutin, C., Stokes, E., Boesch, C., Morgan, D., Sanz, C., Reed, T., Blom, A., Walsh, P., Blake, S., & Kormos, R. Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Western Equatorial Africa. Conservation International. 2005. Washington, DC.
Tutin, C.E.G., Ham, R.M. & Wrogemann, D. 1995. Tool-use by chimpanzees (Pan t. troglodytes) in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon. Primates 36:169-192.
Whiten, A. & Ham, R. 1992. On the nature and evolution of imitation in the Animal Kingdom: Reappraisal of a century of research. In Advances in the Study of Behaviour Volume 21, pp.239-283. Academic Press, Inc.