biology

Rachel Hogan

Rachel Hogan is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rachel Hogan rather than just read about it. In short: Rachel Hogan (born 1976), is a British primate conservationist, living and working in Cameroon in West Africa, and director of the charity Ape Action Africa. Having moved to the Mefou National Park in Cameroon temporarily in 2001, Hogan decided to stay and has been there ever since, becoming director of the charity in 2010.

Key takeaways

Rachel Hogan belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Rachel Hogan to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Rachel Hogan from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Rachel Hogan (born 1976), is a British primate conservationist, living and working in Cameroon in West Africa, and director of the charity Ape Action Africa. Having moved to the Mefou National Park in Cameroon temporarily in 2001, Hogan decided to stay and has been there ever since, becoming director of the charity in 2010. She is well known for her work in the rescue and rehabilitation of gorillas and chimpanzees, as well as fighting the illegal bush meat trade in West Africa.

Biography Rachel Hogan was born in Birmingham, England and her interest in animals started during her childhood, when she had toy gorillas instead of dolls.

Manager at Mefou National Park In 2003, Hogan was appointed manager of the National Park. During her tenure, she and her team have transformed Mefou into one of the largest, most well known primate conservation charities in Africa. In October 2008, Hogan was awarded the IFAW Animal Action Award at a ceremony at the House of Lords. The IFAW awards ceremony was hosted by patron Baroness Gale and wildlife TV presenter Shauna Lowry announced the winners. Having attracted several celebrities and renowned wildlife photographers to visit the Mefou National Park, Hogan organised a photographic exhibition at the Djeuga Palace Hotel in Yaounde in early October 2010. It was attended by Cameroonian Government Ministers, military heads and representatives from the British, US and Israeli embassies. Hogan has also mobilized support for Ape Action Africa through events in Britain.

Director of Ape Action Africa On 22 November 2010, the longstanding director of Ape Action Africa, Avi Sivan, was killed in a helicopter crash between Douala and Yaounde in Cameroon. Sivan had long been a driving force within the charity and a close ally of Hogan. Just over a month later, the board of trustees of the charity announced Rachel Hogan as the new Director. They also appointed Bibila Tafon (Babs) as the new Manager of the Mefou National Park. One of Hogan's first moves was to bring the administrative offices of the charity back to the Mefou National Park from Yaounde, to improve communications between the conservation efforts and administrative necessities of the charity.

Bush meat activism and education Hogan has campaigned against the illegal poaching and selling of rain forest animal species for many years - and particularly the exploitation of chimpanzees and gorillas in this way. Many of the communities living around Cameroon have hunted primates for meat for centuries, but the recent commercialization of the trade has led to a large increase in the demand for bush meat, a trend that Hogan has been fighting at many levels. Hogan has introduced a grassroots educational program, in which local charity workers visit communities and schools to teach about bush meat. Local employment at Ape Action Africa has also helped to spread the message, as well as benefiting the community. In February 2010, bush meat was discovered on a market in Hogan's hometown, Birmingham and identified as chimpanzee meat.

Media and public speaking

Television 200' Going Ape: Animal Planet 2007 Going Ape 2: Animal Planet

Media 19 November 2006 "A Day in the Life of Rachel Hogan": Sunday Times 24 October 2008 "BBC - Gorilla fascination started young": BBC News 30 May 2010 "Reuters - Cameroon's gorillas find sanctuary": Reuters 6 March 2011 "From Birmingham to the jungles of Cameroon: How Rachel Hogan became the new Dian Fossey" Daily Mirror 11 March 2011 "Birmingham woman's fight to save gorillas from hunters": Birmingham Mail 25 May 2012 "African monkey meat that could be behind the next HIV": The Independent 3 August 2014 "I taught him to laugh! Brit saves gorilla after poacher attack": Express 2 July 2016 "100 Places That Will Change Your Life": National Geographic 30 August 2016 "Touching Photo Captures the Moment a Traumatized Baby Chimp Felt Safe for the First Time": One Green Planet 4 May 2017 "A Baby Gorilla's Mom Was Killed, So This Woman Raised Him": National Geographic 9 July 2017 "Rachel's Promise. Negli occhi dei gorilla – Di Jo-Anne McArthur": L'Adigetto

Public speaking 4 December 2009 "My life with gorillas": Bristol Zoo 7 October 2011 Leigh Court, Bristol 14 October 2011 Royal Geographical Society, London 29 April 2017 Dominican University, San Rafael, California 6 May 2017 Midpen Media Centre, Palo Alto, California 12 May 2017 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 13 May 2017 Framing Dames, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada 19 May 2017 Spacesmith, New York City 22 May 2017 The Explorers Club, New York City

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rachel Hogan

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rachel Hogan claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rachel Hogan before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rachel Hogan ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rachel Hogan

In research: Rachel Hogan appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rachel Hogan in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rachel Hogan is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1976 births, Activists from Birmingham, West Midlands, British sustainability advocates, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rachel Hogan outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Rachel Hogan in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Rachel Hogan means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Rachel Hogan out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Rachel Hogan matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Rachel Hogan?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Rachel Hogan.