Gorillas, jaguars and other wildlife vulnerable to human activity even in nature reserves

A male silverback gorilla in the Bwindi impenetrable national park in Uganda, one of the camera-trap wildlife survey areas used in the study Photograph: Jane Rix/Alamy

Wildlife sanctuaries fail to fully protect tropical animals from harmful human activities, a major study has found.

Mammals including the jaguar, the mountain gorilla, and the Sunda pangolin were all found to be affected by human activities, even when they resided in the depths of a nature reserve.