Sites in Africa where private sector or development projects are seeking to use offsets and compensation projects to counterbalance residual negative impacts to great apes and their habitat.

<p>Sites include (1) the Simandou Project in the Republic of Guinea, (2) the Global Alumina Project (GAP) in the Republic of Guinea, (3) the Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project (BHP) in Sierra Leone, and (4) the Lom Pangar Dam in the Republic of Cameroon.</p

Publicly available documentation for each site.

<p>Publicly available documentation for each site.</p

Summary of predicted project impacts on great apes and proposed mitigation measures.

<p>Summary of predicted project impacts on great apes and proposed mitigation measures.</p

Summary of project’s implementation of international best practice principles for biodiversity offsets with respect to great ape conservation.

<p>Summary of project’s implementation of international best practice principles for biodiversity offsets with respect to great ape conservation.</p

Carbon stocks and potential emissions of selected ILPAs in the Brazilian Amazon.

<p>Potential emissions are estimated by simulating future deforestation through 2050, with and without ILPAs present. The difference (depicted by orange bars) represents the reductions of CO₂ emissions contributed by each ILPA. Figure and data modified from Soares and colleagues <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331#pbio.1000331-SoaresFilho1" target="_blank">[15]</a>,<a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331#pbio.1000331-Soares1" target="_blank">[16]</a>.</p