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Primate Conservation
General Topics

This page covers several topics related to primate conservation. Information about Bushmeat, Deforestation and Ecotourism can be found elsewhere.

In the News ( See all conservation news links)

• Researchers examine consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes  (EurekAlert; February 6, 2012)
• Reflections on the Conservation Value of Research in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia  (Orangutan Conservancy; January 24, 2012)
• Strange endangered primates you may have never heard of  (BBC; January 25, 2012)
• "Extinct" Monkeys With Sideburns Found in Borneo  (National Geographic Daily News; January 20, 2012)
• Locals key to saving primate-rich wetlands in Cote D'Ivoire  (Mongabay; December 12, 2011)
• Endangered primate threatened by tourism in the Philippines  (Daily Mail; December 12, 2011)
• Wildlife official: palm oil plantations behind decline in proboscis monkeys  (Mongabay; December 5, 2011)
• World's most endangered primate still losing habitat  (Mongabay; December 4, 2011)
• From the Forest: Jantho, Aceh Besar, Sumatra 2011  (Orangutan Conservancy; November 21, 2011)
• Rare apes saved in India  (Mongabay; November 30, 2011)

LINKS

• A Neotropical Companion  (by John Kricher)
• Action Plan for Conservation of the Gibbons of the Wuliang Mountains Sino-Dutch Forest Conservation and Community Development Project, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China  (by William V. Bleisch and Jiang Xuelong)
• African Great Apes  (WWF African Great Apes Programme, January 2005)
• Angels of the Forest  (full length program; Vimeo: Sharon Pieczenik; 2009; Flash)
• Best Practice Guidelines for Mitigating Human - Great Ape Conflict  (IUCN; 2009)
• Best Practices for Great Ape Conservation  (IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group; 2009)
• Bioko  (Conservation effort on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea)
• Born to Be Wild?  (Reintroduction of golden lion tamarins)
• COMBELENŠ as a Possible Chemical Agent for the Immobilization of Primates in Conservation and Other Projects  (by Clara B. Jones)
• Congo Gorilla Forest: Gorilla Conservation  
• Congo Gorilla Forest: Mandrill Conservation  
• Conservation and Ecology of Drills in Cameroon  (CRES, San Diego Zoo)
• Conservation and Ecology of Golden Monkeys in China  (CRES, San Diego Zoo)
• Conservation Database for Lorises and Pottos  
• Conservation of Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus [Presbytiscus] avunculus) in Vietnam  (by Ramesh Boonratana and Le Xuan Canh)
• Conservation Plan for Western Hoolock Gibbon  (Zoo Outreach Organization and Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh, 2005)
• Cotton-Tops at Roger Williams Park Zoo  
• Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project  (Saving the slow loris via ecology, education & empowerment)
• East African Research Sites  
• Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program  (National Zoo)
• Gorilla Help Site  
• GRASP: Great Apes Survival Project  
• Husbandry Manual for Asian Lorisines (Nycticebus & Loris ssp.)  (loris-conservation.org)
• Lemurs in Peril  (National Geographic)
• Leontopithecus chrysomelas  (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)
• Mountain Gorilla Protection: A Geomatics Approach  
• Orangutan Indonesia Conservation Strategies and Action Plan 2007-2017  (Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia; 2009; PDF)
• Primate Conservation in Vietnam  
• Saimiri Wildlife  
• San Diego Zoo Conservation and Research for Endangered Species Projects  
• Save the Colobus Monkeys in Diani, Kenya  
• Saving Mono Titi  
• Saving the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey in Na Hang Nature Reserve, North Vietnam  (Stiftung Artenschutz)
• The Bonobo Conservation Inititative  
• The Javan Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates lar moloch): Habitat, Distribution, Numbers  (dissertation by Markus Kappeler; 1981)
• The Last Stand of the Orangutan  
• The Lemurs of Marojejy and Anjaraharibe-Sud  (2005; PDF)
• Threatened Primates of Vietnam  (World Association of Zoos and Aqauriums)
• Trouble in Lemur Land  (full length program; Vimeo: Erik Patel and Earth-Touch; 2011; Flash)
• Wildlife Conservation Society  

Biodiversity

• Bamboo Biodiversity Report  (UNEP-WCMC; 2004)
• Biodiversity  (Natural History Museum, London, England)
• Biodiversity Conservation in the Argentinean Chaco  (CRES, San Diego Zoo)
• Biodiversity Support Program  
• Center for Applied Biodiversity  (Conservation International)
• Species 2000  

Conventions, Acts & Legislation

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species  (2004)
• Text of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of Wild Fauna and Flora  

Geographical Sites & Maps

• Digital Distribution Maps of the Mammals of the Western Hemisphere  
• InfoNatura: Birds, Mammals, and Amphibians of Latin America  (Range maps)
• National Geographic Map Machine  
• The Living Africa  

GIS & Other Technologies

• Central African Gorilla Habitat  (Satellite view)
• The Wilds of Madagascar  (PBS/Nova)

Grants

There are no current links in this category.

Reintroduction

• Best Practice Guidelines for the Re-introduction of Great Apes  (IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group)
• IUCN/SSC Guidelines For Re-Introductions  

Status

• Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations  (IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group; 2008)
• EE-Link Endangered Species  
• Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing  
• Prime Concern  (blog)
• State of the World's Forests 2005  
• World Conservation Monitoring Center  

Trade

• Primate Trade  
• Trade and Environment Database