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Primate Conservation
In The News
Browse by topic below or select a species from the pulldown:
- Gorilla rangers execution threat (BBC News, March 7, 2008)
- Saving Monkeys from Extinction (Time Magazine, November 6, 2007)
- West and Central African Primates Imperiled by Hunting, Habitat Loss (Voice of America, October 29, 2007)
- Photo Gallery: 25 Most Endangered Primates Named (National Geographic News, October 26, 2007)
- Primates in Peril (Conservation International, October 25, 2007)
- The edge of oblivion: conservationists name 25 primates about to disappear (Guardian Unlimited, October 26, 2007)
- Great apes 'facing climate peril' (BBC News, May 30, 2007)
- Our primates are in danger (Independent Online, South Africa, April 11, 2005)
- Desperate plight of the great apes (Australian Broadcasting Company, March 11, 2005)
- Expert highlights mobile phone threat to great apes (Australian Broadcasting Company, March 10, 2005)
- Bid to save the last great apes (The Age, Australia, March 15, 2005)
- UWA blocks export of 280 monkeys (The New Vision, Uganda, March 15, 2005)
- Liberian gold rush threatens forest preserve (International Herald Tribune, March 1, 2005)
- Experts and activists urges all to protect wildlife for maintaining Bangladesh's biodiversity (Bangladesh Journal, February 14, 2005)
- Rare Animals Make Africa Island Park True Hot Spot (National Geographic News, July 6, 2004)
- Rwandan, Kenyan Named Winners of 2004 Conservation Award (National Geographic News, December 9, 2004)
- Calakmul land deal hailed, but success still uncertain (El Universal, Mexico, November 28, 2004)
- When breeding season becomes killing season (Independent Online, South Africa, November 27, 2004)
- Not much hope left for Africa's great apes (Mail & Guardian, South Africa, October 31, 2004)
- NGO executing Forest reserve protection programme (GhanaWeb, November 4, 2004)
- How British demand feeds slaughter of rare species (Guardian, UK, September 12, 2004)
- Learning to Track Like a Bushman (Wired, January 22, 2004)
- Fences 'can help apes' survival' (BBC News, May 5, 2004)
- A Fifth of Southeast Asian Species May Die Out, Study Suggests (Bloomberg.com, July 23, 2003)
- After century of survival, many primates face extinction (CNN, January 10, 2000)
- Dire Outlook for Many Primates (BBC, May 12, 2000)
- Extinction Risk for 1 in 3 Primates, Study Says (National Geographic News, October 8, 2002)
- Great apes in peril (BBC News, May 20, 2001)
- Himalayan state takes stock of its agro monkeys (The Age, Australia, February 22, 2004)
- Human Expansion Threatens Brazilian Amazon Forests (Voice of America, September 21, 2002)
- Last chance to save great apes from extinction (Guardian Unlimited, May 21, 2001)
- Massive Die-Off of Great Apes Reported in Africa (National Geographic News, February 6, 2003)
- Ousted of Africa (Mail & Guardian, South Africa, August 22, 2003)
- Rain Forest Expert Saves His Amazon (National Geographic News, December 17, 2002)
- Red alert over rare species (New Scientist, January 16, 2003)
- Saving man's distant cousin (BBC News, August 13, 2001)
- State of Amazonas safeguards world's richest biodiversity with six new protected areas (EurekAlert, September 10, 2003)
- They're Logging Your Rain Forest! (International Wildlife, July/August 2000)
- Third of primates 'risk extinction' (BBC News, October 7, 2002)
Bushmeat
- Wildlife Meat Dangerous for Humans If Not Checked (New Vision, Uganda, February 4, 2008)
- Hungry Tanzania refugees eat chimps and wild game (Reuters Africa, January 22, 2007)
- Monkey Meat at Center of NYC Court Case (Associated Press, November 25, 2007)
- A Taste of Baboon and Monkey Meat, and Maybe of Prison, Too (New York Times, November 17, 2007)
- Chimpazees declining in parks - official (New Vision, Uganda, November 18, 2007)
- Equatorial Guinea bans hunting and eating monkeys (AFP, November 7, 2007)
- Dispute Over Monkey Meat Hits on Religious Freedom (New York Sun, August 20, 2007)
- Bushmeat: Curse of the Monkey's Paw (ABC News, March 15, 2007)
- Primate Hunting Reaches Crisis Point in Latin America (Spiegel Online, March 13, 2007)
- Congo rebels kill rare ape, raising survival fears (Reuters, January 10, 2007)
- Anti-bushmeat campaign goes cinematic (iAfrica, October 13, 2006)
- Road kill in Cameroon - killing of gorillas and other animals (Natural History, February 1997)
- The hazards of monkey cuisine (Ithaca Journal, September 6, 2006)
- Heading off the next HIV (Hamilton Spectator, August 19, 2006)
- From Stan, our man in Liberia: Monekey business (Village Soup, August 6, 2006)
- Ape Meat Sold in U.S., European Black Markets (National Geographic News, July 18, 2006)
- Africa's apes 'are being eaten to extinction' (Mail and Guardian Online, June 30, 2006)
- Bushmeat trade threatens African wildlife (Independent Online, June 18, 2006)
- In the past, game was locally hunted and eaten as part of the diet of villagers; Now it is being consumed on an industrial scale (The Star, South Africa, June 14, 2006)
- Bush-meat traders threaten Nigeria's chimps (Georgia Straight, Canada, November 3, 2005)
- Gorillas being poached for 'bushmeat' trade (Independent Online, South Africa, August 31, 2005)
- Monkey meat sold in city (New Vision, Uganda, August 27, 2005)
- Lemur hunting persists in Madagascar, rare primates fall victim to hunger (Mongabay.com, July 17, 2005)
- DRC soldiers 'killing gorillas' (News 24, South Africa, June 22, 2005)
- Bushmeat 'safe' (Guardian Unlimited, June 13, 2005)
- Bushmeat on the Menu (Science News, February 26, 2005)
- Study links Ebola outbreaks to animal carcasses (EurekAlert, February 14, 2005)
- Bushmeat trade threatens wildlife and humans (Concord Monitor, January 21, 2005)
- Health Risks From Bushmeat May Reach U.S. Shores (Pacific News Service, April 29, 2004)
- New study links low fish supply to increased bushmeat hunting (EurekAlert, November 11, 2004)
- Aids warning over bushmeat trade (BBC News, October 26, 2004)
- Primate Viruses Transmitted To People Through Bushmeat (ScienceDaily, March 19, 2004)
- Bushmeat trade thriving in Kenya (BBC News, October 13, 2004)
- Oil boom fuels bushmeat trade (BBC News, October 7, 2004)
- Photographer Fights African Poaching With Grisly Pictures (National Geographic News, September 30, 2004)
- Tony Rose, The Bushmeat Project (Grist Magazine, 2002)
- Smuggled bushmeat poses disease risk to Britain, says report (Telegraph, UK, September 5, 2004)
- 'Bushmeat' seizures rise in Wales (BBC News, May 17, 2004)
- African apes being eaten into extinction (Sunday Herald, UK, October 11, 2003)
- African `bushmeat' trade raises health, conservation fears (Taipei Times, August 25, 2003)
- Beating the bushmeat business (IPPL, April 1998)
- Bushmeat ban 'would be wrong' (BBC News, September 8, 2003)
- Eating apes imperils species, spreads AIDS (ABC Science Online, Australia, September 15, 2003)
- Eating our closest relatives (News 24, South Africa, August 24, 2003)
- Ebola may come from 'bush meat' - study (Independent Online, South Africa, January 15, 2004)
- Fall of the Wild (ZooGoer, September-October 2001)
- Growing demand for 'bushmeat' threatens great apes (CNN, August 11, 1999)
- Hopes for sustainable bush meat hunting (New Scientist, September 3, 2003)
- Keeping Cameroon's primates from the pot (BBC News, March 8, 2001)
- Orphans of the Slaughter (Toledo Blade, December 10, 2000)
- Pygmies' bushmeat trade woe (BBC News, September 2, 2003)
- The cost of bushmeat (BBC News, June 4, 2002)
- UK project tackles bushmeat diet (BBC News, April 10, 2002)
- Wild meat imports raise concern (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 19, 2003)
Deforestation
- 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)
- Illegal logging hits Asian forests, orangutans - U.N. (Reuters, 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)
- Making markets work for forests and people in Ghana (WWF Newsroom, May 26, 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)
- Tsunami disaster further imperils orangutan habitat (Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 10, 2005)
- Brazil moves to protect virgin Amazon rainforest (St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 11, 2004)
- 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)
Ecotourism
- Rwanda's silverback gorilla lodge (Times Online, March 16, 2008)
- More mountain gorillas for tourists (Reuters, October 9, 2007)
- Tanzania's chimps are just like family, only hairier (Miami Herald, August 10, 2007)
- Gorillas' Safety Vital to Africa's Tourism Market (ABC News, August 8, 2007)
- Ecotourism Driving Tibetan Monkeys to Infanticide (National Geographic News, July 20, 2007)
- For Primates, Tourism Can Be Less Fun Than a Barrel of Monkeys (University at Buffalo News Center, July 13, 2007)
- Kagame Calls for Communal Participation in Tourism (Kigali New Times, June 30, 2007)
- Sumatra best spot to see orangutans in the wild (Stuff, New Zealand, June 29, 2007)
- Rare gorillas habituated to boost tourism (Independent Online, March 12, 2007)
- Gorillas (and chimps) in their midst (Roanoke Times, February 2, 2007)
- Monkey Business (Lanka Business Online, January 11, 2007)
- Wilder shores (The Australian, November 25, 2006)
- Beaufort's Proboscis Monkey (Bernama, Malyasian National News Agency, August 29, 2006)
- They're just like family, only hairier (Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2006)
- Village has a gorilla economy (San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2006)
- Silverback Mountain (Richard Bang Adventures, March 21, 2006)
- Gorillas in Rwanda (Washington Post, March 5, 2006)
- A star turn on silverback mountain (Sunday Times, London, February 26, 2006)
- Bwindi gorillas in baby galore (New Vision Online, October 25, 2005)
- Uganda's poor hope for more gorilla dollars (BBC News, May 21, 2004)
- RPPN: Private Reserves Embrace Ecotourism in Brazil (Brazilmax, February 16, 2004)
- A Town Square for Jungle Beasts (New York Times, September 7, 2003)
- Gorillas in our midst (Independent Online, South Africa. February 24, 2004)
- Gorillas in our midst (St. Petersburg Times, November 17, 2002)
- Rwanda: Park lodge loved by baboons reopens to human guests (North County Times, February 8, 2004)
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