@article{96006aa2b28b4dc8a7b5021223e49828,
title = "Toshisada Nishida's contributions to primatology",
author = "Mitani, \{John C.\} and McGrew, \{William C.\} and Richard Wrangham",
note = "Funding Information: Nishida{\textquoteright}s commitment to fieldwork at Mahale led to his first major conservation initiative in 1975, when he and Professor Junichiro Itani, proposed to the Tanzanian Government that the Mahale Mountains be maintained as a wildlife reserve. This led to a team of Mahale-based scientists collaborating to produce a detailed plan for the conservation of the Mahale Mountains. As a direct result of this effort, Mahale was gazetted as Tanzania{\textquoteright}s eleventh national park in 1985. In 1984 Nishida first proposed a Mahale Wildlife Conservation Society, and this became a reality in 1994. Nishida continued to work diligently to promote primate conservation as President of the International Primatological Society (IPS) between 1996 and 2001. On completing his tenure as IPS President in 2001, Nishida became a special {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Great Ape Envoy{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} for the Great Ape Survival Project (GRASP), and lobbied to create a project to conserve great apes globally. With the support of the IPS, he became Chairman of an IPS {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Ad-hoc Committee for the World Heritage Status for the Great Apes{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}, organized meetings in Nairobi, Paris, and elsewhere to promote new mechanisms for great ape conservation through UNESCO and UNEP. He remains Co-Chair of the Great Ape World Heritage Species Project. Copyright: Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2005",
month = aug,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1007/s10329-005-0138-8",
language = "English",
volume = "47",
pages = "2--5",
journal = "Primates",
issn = "0032-8332",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "1",
}