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Tiwai
in Mende language means big island |
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Tiwai
Island is Sierra Leone’s first & only community
conservation programme |
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At
12 sq kms, Tiwai is one of Sierra Leone’s largest
inland islands |
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The
Gola Forest Reserves, which host the last significant
patches of rainforest in Sierra Leone, spread east of
Tiwai to the Liberian border |
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Materials
Relating to Tiwai Island
Anglia
television (1998) Paradise In Peril: Tiwai Island
Of The Apes, Re-Edition, Survival Special, documentary
(film)
Anglia
Television (1991) Tiwai: Island of the Apes,
Survival Special, documentary (film)
Bakarr,
MI, AA Gbakima and Z Bah (1991) “Intestinal
helminth parasites in free-living monkeys from a West African
rainforest” African journal of ecology, 29(2),
pp. 170-172
Bakarr,
Ibrahim (2001) Re-Censuring Primate Population on
Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone, Njala University College
(University of Sierra Leone), Msc Thesis (unpublished)
Dasilva,
GL (1994) “Diet of Colobus polykomos on Tiwai
Island: Selection of food in relation to its seasonal abundance
and nutritional quality” International Journal
of Primatology, 15(5), pp. 655-680
Davies,
Glyn, John F. Oates and Georgina L. Dasilva (1999) “Patterns
of Frugivory in Three West African Colobine Monkeys”,
International Journal of Primatology, 20(3), pp. 327-357
Fimbel,
Cheryl (1992) “Cross-species handling of colobine
infants” Primates, 33(2), pp.545-549
Fimbel,
Cheryl (1994) “Ecological Correlates of Species
Success in Modified Habitats May Be Disturbance- and Site-Specific:
The Primates of Tiwai Island”, Conservation
Biology, 8(1), pp. 106-113
Fleagle,
John G Charles Helmar Janson, Kaye E. Reed (1999) Primate
communities, Cambridge University Press
Holenweg.
A, Noë R and Schabel M. (1996) “Waser's
gas model applied to associations between red colobus and
Diana monkeys in the Taï National Park, Ivory Coast”
Folia Primatologica, 67(3), pp. 125-136
Johnny,
Jonathon (2004) Photosociological Analysis of Tree
Species on Tiwai Wildlife Sanctuary Reserve, Njala
University College (University of Sierra Leone), Msc Thesis
(unpublished)
Kamara,
Samuel Saidu (2003) An Inventory of Small Mammals
on Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, Njala University
College (University of Sierra Leone), Msc Thesis (unpublished)
Koroma,
Sylvester (2003) An Assessment of the Ecotourism
Potential of the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary,
Njala University College (University of Sierra Leone), Msc
Thesis (unpublished)
Macgrew,
William Clement (1992) Chimpanzee Material Culture:
implications for human evolution, Cambridge University
Press
Moriba,
John (2003) Species Composition of Amphibians on
Tiwai Island, Njala University College (University
of Sierra Leone), Msc Thesis (unpublished)
Oates,
John (1999) Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest,
How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa,
University of California Press
Oates,
John (1988) “The diet of the olive colobus
monkey, Procolobus verus , in Sierra Leone”
International Journal of Primatology, 9(5), pp. 457-478
Oates,
John and George Whitesides (1990) “Association
between olive colobus (Procolobus verus), Diana guenons
(Cercopithecus diana), and other forest monkeys in Sierra
Leone” American Journal of Primatology, 21,
pp.129-146
Oates,
John and George Whitesides, Glyn Davies, Peter G. Waterman,
Steven M. Green, Georgina L. Dasilva, and Silon Mole (1990)
“Determinants of variation in tropical forest
primate biomass: New evidence from West Africa”,
Ecology, 71(1), pp. 328–343.
White,
L. (1986): Population survey of the pygmy hippopotamus
(Choeropsis liberiensis) on Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone.
(Unpubl.) rep., Sierra Leone Expedition 1986, University
College London: 24 pp.
Whitesides,
George (1989) “Interspecific associations
of Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana , in Sierra Leone,
West Africa: Biological significance or chance?”
Animal Behaviour, 37(5), pp. 760-776
Whitesides,
George (1985) “Nut cracking by wild chimpanzees
in Sierra Leone, West Africa” Primates, 26(1),
pp. 91-94
Whitesides
G. H, J. F. Oates, S. M. Green, and R. P. Kluberdanz (1988)
“Estimating Primate Densities from Transects
in a West African Rain Forest: A Comparison of Techniques”
Journal of Animal Ecology, 57(2), pp. 345-367
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