Road access introduce Chimpanzees to foreign disease

Road intrusions into natural habitat space facilitate increased human activity in the area, due to the increased ease of access. When humans arrive, they bring their sicknesses and germs with them. This video explains how efforts to increase human tourist traffic are introducing the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania to fatal illnesses, and can serve as a valuable case study in road’s impacts on the health of wildlife.