Jacqueline Sunderland-Groves

Conservation biologist and primatologist specialising in great apes across West-Central Africa and Asia. Early career experience focused on sanctuary management of rescued great apes, specifically gorillas and chimpanzees in Cameroon. A decade was spent in the forests along the Cameroon-Nigeria border region establishing and managing a research and conservation project focused on the Critically Endangered Cross River gorilla and Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee which later extended to new chimpanzee surveys in Guinea. Overall experience includes primate captive management, great ape survey techniques, gorilla ecology, multi-taxa surveys, protected area establishment, education and conservation outreach programs. The last four years have focused on orangutan reintroduction and conservation on Borneo. Member of the IUCN Primate and Great Apes Specialist Groups; co-author of the IUCN Action Plan for Cross River gorillas, the IUCN Action Plan for the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee as well as a number of peer-reviewed publications.