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Primate Conservation
Deforestation
Deforestation results from removal of trees for logging,
urban development or farming (among other things) without sufficient
reforestation, and results in declines in habitat and biodiversity.
- Madagascar's lemurs in danger from political turmoil and 'timber mafia' (Guardian; November 17, 2009)
- Wildlife expert claims gorilla dung is critical to containing climate change (Guardian; October 13, 2009)
- Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra (Mongabay; September 24, 2009)
- Iowa scientists make plans to revive African forest (Des Moines Register; September 22, 2009)
- Madagascar issues fines for timber stolen from national parks during political crisis (Mongabay; August 3, 2009)
- Rainforests More Fragile Than Estimated (Discovery News; June 29, 2009)
- Indonesian orang-utans and tigers threatened by new logging scheme (Times Online; June 10, 2009)
- We need rainforest as much as the apes do (Times Online; May 2, 2009)
- Best Practice Guidelines to Reduce the Impact of Logging (IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group; 2007)
- Is Harvesting Palm Oil Destroying the Rainforests? (Scientific American; December 11, 2008)
- Biofuel boom endangers orangutan habitat (Los Angeles Times; October 19, 2008)
- Poaching and deforestation threaten Ugandan chimps (Earth Times; August 14, 2008)
- Chevron blamed for destroying natural forest in Bangladesh (Thaindian News; June 27, 2008)
- Rare golden primates help speed recovery of endangered Brazilian forest (Mongabay.com; June 9, 2008)
- The Amazon Gets Less and Less Green (Time; January 25, 2008)
- Costa Rica's monkeys lose ground to developers (Reuters; July 26, 2007)
- Indonesia's Logging Fight (Wall Street Journal; July 3, 2007)
- U.N.: Orangutans' Survival Faces Threat (Associated Press; June 11, 2007)
- Ugandan chimps threatened by massive felling of forests (Hindustan Times; June 12, 2007)
- Logging may wreck orangutan forests in decade-UN (Reuters; June 11, 2007)
- 'Protected' Congo forest is logged regardless (New Scientist; April 11, 2007)
- Palm Oil Products Linked To Orang-utan Demise (Scoop, New Zealand; March 22, 2007)
- Illegal Loggers Mutilating Congolese Forests (Environment News Service; February 28, 2007)
- Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei agree to save "Heart of Borneo" (AFP; February 12, 2007)
- Threatened Lemurs' Diet Key to Conservation Efforts, Researchers Say (National Geographic News; February 8, 2007)
- Orangutans 'face greater threat' (BBC News; February 6, 2007)
- Fighting to save Borneo's vital last rain forests (International Herald Tribune; September 19, 2006)
- Illegal logging helps Indonesians survive (Duluth News-Tribune; July 28, 2006)
- Grumble in the jungle (The Observer Magazine; June 18, 2006)
- Monkey-dung study offers clues about land-use, wildlife ecology (EurekAlert; April 6, 2006)
- Malaysian State to Ban Logging in Orangutan Habitat (Voice of America; March 16, 2006)
- Indonesia rainforest palm plantation plan seen causing timber losses, floods (Forbes; February 7, 2006)
- Satellites Show Amazon Parks, Indigenous Reserves Stop Forest Clearing (ScienceDaily; January 27, 2006)
- Study: Deforestation decimates orangutans (UPI; January 24, 2006)
- World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005 (Mongabay.com; November 16, 2005)
- Shaking Money From Borneo's Trees (Washington Post; November 2, 2005)
- Selective Logging Fails to Sustain Rainforest (Scientific American; October 21, 2005)
- Palm plantation sparks rainforest row (CNN; September 16, 2005)
- WWF: World's Largest Palm Oil Plantation Could Spell Disaster for Forests of Borneo (US Newswire; August 12, 2005)
- Logging Changed Ecological Balance For Monkeys, Damaged Health (ScienceDaily; June 15, 2005)
- Tsunami Rebuilding Could Deforest Island, Green Groups Say (National Geographic News; April 26, 2005)
- Oil Developer Permitted to Log in Ecuadorian National Park (Environment News Service; March 28, 2005)
- Orang-utan brigade takes on Borneo's illegal loggers (Sydney Morning Herald; March 25, 2005)
- Environmentalists Urge U.S. Firms to Stop Importing Indonesian Timber (Environment News Service; February 25, 2005)
- Saving The Congo Basin Rainforest (Voice of America; February 1, 2005)
- Save the trees, save the apes, expert says (San Diego Union-Tribune; October 5, 2004)
- Borneo Forest Faces Extinction (Wired News; February 13, 2004)
- For Dung Beetles, Monkey Business Is Serious Stuff (National Geographic News; May 26, 2004)
- Catastrophic loss of wild bamboo threatens pandas, mountain gorillas -- UN (UN News Centre; May 11, 2004)
- Letting Indonesia's forests 'breathe' (Asia Times; January 23, 2003)
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