Topics in Primate Conservation
Topics
in Primate Conservation focuses on current issues and developments
affecting the conservation of threatened and endangered primates.
Coverage includes: conservation strategies and
activities; systematics and geographic distribution; habitat
evaluation; and field research on ecology, evolution and behavior.
This is a collaborative effort with those engaged in conservation
work with nonhuman primates.
The coordinator for this series is:
NANCY RUGGERI, Assistant Faculty Associate, Department of Zoology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nancy received her Master's degree
in Biological Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin in 1996.
She investigated the calling behavior of the White-cheeked gibbon
(Hylobates leucogenys) in the Lao PDR and its implications for
conservation. While in Laos, she worked for the Wildlife Conservation
Society and implemented a training program for the Lao forestry
staff in protected Areas Management. In 1992, as part of her
graduate studies, she had the opportunity to work on a project in
Rwanda studying the ecology and behavior of two forest guenons,
Cercopithecus l'hoesti and C. mitis. She is currently working at
the University of Wisconsin's Department of Zoology teaching
introductory biology while pursuing her interest in primate
conservation.
We welcome the full participation of Primate-Science members
and others who share this interest. Brief reports on the following
and related topics are welcome:
- Conservation organization programs
- Habitat preservation
- Field work
- Species survival plans
- Managing wild populations
- Maintaining viable genetic populations
- Captive breeding
- Zoological garden supported efforts
- Reintroduction/Rehabilitation
- Ecotourism
- Field techniques and equipment
- Field veterinarianship
- Legislation
- Bushmeat trade
Topics in Primate Conservation will include reports from the published
literature as well as original submissions. Reports should
be kept to a reasonable length.
Please send brief conservation reports or suggested topics to
Nancy Ruggeri (nruggeri@wisc.edu).
- 25 primate species reported on brink of extinction (Associated Press; October 15, 2012)
- Accused poachers arrested in Vietnam after 15 rare langurs killed (Monsters and Critics; July 20, 2011)
- 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)
- Activists to release 30 orangutans in Aceh forest (Jakarta Post; October 31, 2011)
- Black-faced Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus caissara)
- Buff-headed Capuchin (Cebus xanthosternos)
- COMBELEN© AS A POSSIBLE CHEMICAL AGENT FOR THE IMMOBILIZATION OF PRIMATES
- Conservation of Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus [Presbytiscus] avunculus) in Vietnam
- Delacour's Langur (Trachypithecus delacouri)
- Disappearing Resources of the Amazon (Fox News; July 20, 2011)
- GIBBON DIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
- Golden-headed Langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus)
- Greater Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur simus)
- Highlands park shelters langur population (Viet Nam News; October 15, 2012)
- Hundreds of Orangutans to Finally Get Taste of Freedom in Indonesia (Jakarta Globe; January 20, 2011)
- IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group Action Plans
- Lion-tailed macaque no longer in 'top 25' endangered list (The Hindu; October 15, 2012)
- Miss Waldron's Red Colobus (Procolobus badius waldroni)
- Natuna Banded Leaf Monkey (Presbytis natunae)
- New hope for rare lemurs in Madagascar (Mongabay; January 21, 2011)
- New plagues of monkey viruses?
- Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)
- Pan troglodytes ellioti: Chimpanzees in Nigeria and western Cameroon
- Perrier's Sifaka (Propithecus perrieri)
- Pig-tailed Snub-nosed Monkey or "Simakobu" (Simias concolor)
- Primates in Peril
- Primates of the World: An Introduction
- Roloway Guenon and White-naped Mangabey (Cercopithecus diana roloway and Cercocebus atys lunulatus)
- Sanje Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus sanjei)
- Scientists warn little known gibbons face immediate extinction (Mongabay; September 19, 2010)
- Search for Gorillas (CNN; March 21, 2010; Video)
- Silky Sifaka (Propithecus candidus)
- Student turns 'monkey business' into conservation endeavor (The Exponent, Purdue University; October 23, 2003)
- Tana River Mangabey and Tana River Red Colobus (Cercocebus galeritus galeritus and Procolobus rufomitratus)
- The Last Stand of the Gorilla (UNEP; 2010)
- Two New Monkey Species Discovered
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