The Kinshasa Declaration on great apes, adopted at the
first Intergovernmental Meeting on Great Apes in Kinshasa, 2005, now has over 80 signatories.

Monaco became the 28th country to sign the Kinshasa Declaration at a ceremony held on December 15, 2006 at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Other recent signatories include Sierra Leone and Sudan who signed the declaration at a GRASP side event held at the 8th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Gabon and Rwanda signed the declaration during the plenary session of the 11th regular session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) held in Brazzaville, Congo, 22-26 May 2006.

Equitorial Guinea added its signature to the declaration in June 2006. This leaves only 2 of the 23 great ape range states yet to sign the declaration.

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