Top 25 Most Endangered Primates
This list of the most endangered primate species are considered
'almost lost'. Many species number only in dozens, and some
number in the hundreds. They are detailed with their scientific
name, common name, primate type, and geographical location.
Primates are hunted relentlessly for their meat and fur in
the bushmeat trade, used
for scientific animal
experimentation, ripped from their habitat for the Exotic
Pet Trade and made homeless by the constant chopping and
burning of forests, or shot for stealing crops in fields which
originally were their natural habitat and home.
Did you know.....
- There are 625 primate species and
subspecies.
- 25 percent of primates are at risk
of extinction.
- primary threats: deforestation,
commercial bushmeat hunting, illegal animal trade.
List of The World's Critically Endangered Primates - May 2006
In May 2006, the 21st Congress of the International
Primatological Society in Entebbe, Uganda, held a special session
of primatologists and conservationists chose a new list of the
world's 25 most endangered primates, in order to highlight the
dangers facing primate species around the world. This list will
soon be updated to include details on their distribution, population
estimates and major threats to their survival.
Africa
Galagoides rondoensis - Rondo dwarf galago
Procolobus pennantii pennantii - Pennant's red colobus
Procolobus rufomitratus - Tana River red colobus
Procolobus badius waldroni - Miss Waldron's red colobus
Rungwecebus kipunji - Highland mangabey [more
on the mangabey]
Cercopithecus diana roloway - Roloway monkey [more
on genus Cercopithecus]
Gorilla gorilla diehli - Cross River gorilla [more
on gorillas]
Asia
Tarsius sp. - Siau Island tarsier
Loris lydekkerianus nycticeboides - Horton Plains slender
loris
Simias concolor - Pig-tailed langur
Trachypithecus delacouri - Delacour's langur
Trachypithecus p. poliocephalus - Tonkin hooded black
langur
Semnopithecus vetulus nestor - Western purple-faced langur
Pygathrix nemaeus cinerea - Grey-shanked douc
Rhinopithecus avunculus - Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
Nomascus nasutus hainanus - Hainan black-crested gibbon
Hoolock hoolock hoolock - Western hoolock gibbon
Pongo abelii - Sumatran orangutan
Madagascar
Prolemur simus - Greater bamboo lemur
Eulemur albocollaris - White-collared lemur
Propithecus candidus - Silky sifaka
Lepilemur sahamalazensis - Sahamalaza Peninsula sportive
lemur
Neotropics
Ateles hybridus - Variegated spider monkey
Ateles fusciceps - Brown-headed spider monkey
Oreonax flavicauda - Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Source: IUCN/SSC
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The struggle to save the global environment
is in one way
much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler,
for this time the war is with ourselves.
We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
~ Al Gore ~
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill
will, in the end, take their revenge;
for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
~ Marya Mannes 'More in Anger' 1958 ~
To waste, to destroy our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase
its usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days of our children the very
prosperity
which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
~Theodore Roosevelt, 7th Annual Message, 3 December 1907
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supporting quality of life for chimps, apes, gorillas and other
primates.
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