General Information

Biodiversity

• Biodiversity and Protected Areas (World Resources Institute)
• Biodiversity and Worldmap (Natural History Museum, London, England)
• Biodiversity Support Program
• Center for Applied Biodiversity (Conservation International)
• NatureServe: Biodiversity Information

Bushmeat

• Bushmeat Crisis Task Force
• Bushmeat Project
• The Bushmeat Research Programme, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
• Bushmeat Trade Threatens Primates
• CITES: Bushmeat
• European Association of Zoos and Aquaria Bushmeat Campaign
• Final Draft Consensus Statement on Bushmeat
• Gorillas in the Soup (Bushmeat trade)
• Planet of the Dead Apes (NOTE: This site contains graphic images of burned gorilla corpses)
• Saving Apes from the Bushmeat Trade (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
• Slaughter of the Apes
• Traffic: Bush Meat Utilization - A Critical Issue in East and Southern Africa
• The UK Bushmeat Campaign
• UNESCO

Conventions, Acts, Legislation

• Text of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of Wild Fauna and Flora
• CITES Appendix I - Primate Species
• EE-Link Policy on Endangered Species: United States Laws
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2002)

Deforestation

• Forest Conservation Portal
• Forests for the World
• WWF: Forests For Life

Ecotourism

• Conservation International: Ecotourism
• Do's and Dont's for Environmentally Conscious Ecotourists
• Ecovolunteers
• Forests and You: Support Efforts Which Conserve Forest Resources
• International Ecotourism Society
• Recommendations for Action -- Realizing the Potential of Guyana's Forests: Build Sustainable Communities, Especially Around Non-Timber Values
• The Social Construction of Orangutans: An Ecotourist Experience (by Constance L. Russell, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)

Geographical Sites and Maps

• Last Frontier Forests" Interactive Forest Maps
• The Living Africa
• National Geographic Map Machine
• World Atlas 2000

GIS and other Technologies

• Applying GIS and satellite remote sensing to endangered species conservation: a study of the distribution and habitat status of the Indri indri in Madagascar (by Rebecca Young and Anne Axel)
• Central African Gorilla Habitat (Satellite view)
• Global Positioning Systems
• The Wilds of Madagascar (PBS/Nova)

Grants

• Conservation Information Service

Reintroduction

• IUCN/SSC Guidelines For Re-Introductions
• Conservation Status of Primates
• EE-Link Endangered Species
• Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing
• One in Every Three Primates Now Threatened with Extinction (Conservation International)
  • Primates in Peril (Conservational International report, in PDF format)
• State of the World's Forests 2001
• Top 25 Most Endangered Primates (Conservation International)
• World Conservation Monitoring Center

Trade

• Rescuing Orphans
• Trade and Environment Database
• Chimpanzees: The Value of Research versus Endangerment
• Primate Trade

Species-Specific Information

Colobus (Colobus)

• Save the Colobus Monkeys in Diani, Kenya

Gibbon (Hylobates)

• Gibbon Conservation
• The Javan Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates lar moloch): Habitat, Distribution, Numbers (1981 dissertation by Markus Kappeler)

Gorilla (Gorilla)

• Gorilla Help Site
• GRASP: Great Apes Survival Project

Lemur (Lemur)

• Lemurs in Peril (National Geographic)
• Monitoring Impacts of Natural Resource Extraction on Lemurs of the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar

Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus)

• Born to Be Wild? (Reintroduction of golden lion tamarins)
• Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program (National Zoo)
• In the Field: Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Project

Orangutan (Pongo)

• Deforestation in Indonesia and the Orangutan Population
• Species in Peril - Orangutans

Tamarin (Saguinus)

• Cotton-Tops at Roger Williams Park Zoo

Multi-Species

Africa

• Bioko (Conservation effort on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea)
• East African Research Sites
• Great Apes in the Wild (from World Wildlife Fund)
• Orphans of the Fading Forest

Asia

• Conservation Database for Lorises and Pottos
• Primate Conservation in Vietnam
• Illegal Logging at Suaq Balimbing, Gunung Leuser National Park. Sumatra, Indonesia

Other

• The Apes: Challenges for the 21st Century (Proceedings from a 2000 conference at the Brookfield Zoo)
• A Neotropical Companion (by John Kricher)
• Wildlife Conservation Society
• Zoological Society of San Diego: Conservation Projects in the Wild

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