Overview of Primate Conservation

• 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)
• Extinction Surge (ABC News, September 15, 2000)
• Great apes fall victim in headlong drive to mass extinction (The Globe and Mail, October 8, 2002)
• Great apes in peril (BBC News, May 20, 2001)
• Last chance to save great apes from extinction (Guardian Unlimited, May 21, 2001)
• Law of the jungle (Nature, January 24, 2003)
• Primates in Peril (The Star, Malaysia, October 15, 2002)
• Red alert over rare species (New Scientist, January 16, 2003)
• Third of primates 'risk extinction' (BBC News, October 7, 2002)
• Threats to Primates Are Escalating (Environment News Service, October 8, 2002)

Bushmeat

• 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)
• The Bushmeat Crisis (allAfrica.com, November 7, 2002)
• Bushmeat Crisis in Africa Threatens Great Apes (Reuters, UK, September 8, 2003)
• The cost of bushmeat (BBC News, June 4, 2002)
• Ebola may come from 'bush meat' - study (Independent, South Africa, January 15, 2004)
• EU Urged to Act over Bushmeat Trade (The Scotsman, Scotland, January 11, 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 (NewScientist, September 3, 2003)
• Keeping Cameroon's primates from the pot (BBC News, March 8, 2001)
• Monkey Business in Kinshasa Markets (Reuters UK, August 11, 2003)
• Orphans of the Slaughter (Toledo Blade, December 10, 2000)
• Planet of the dying apes (ABC News, May 12, 2000)
• Pygmies' bushmeat trade woe (BBC News, September 2, 2003)
• Rein in bushmeat trade, experts say (Environmental News Network, April 6, 1999)
• An unwanted import: Wild meat (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 17, 2003)
• UK project tackles bushmeat diet (BBC News, April 10, 2002)
• Zoologists call for trade in bushmeat to be licensed (The Independent, UK, February 11, 2004)

  Deforestation

• E.U. bids to cut down worldwide illegal timber trade (Reuters, May 21, 2003)
• Letting Indonesia's forests 'breathe' (Asia Times, January 23, 2003)

  Ecotourism

• Going where the gorillas roam (Chicago Sun Times, February 8, 2004)
• Gorillas in our midst (Independent Online, South Africa. February 24, 2004)
• Gorillas in our midst (St. Petersburg Times, November 17, 2002)
• Mad about Madagascar: mesmerized by a mini-continent (E, The Environmental Magazine, January 15, 2003)
• Rwanda offers close look at rare mountain gorillas (National Post, Canada, February 15, 2004)
• Rwanda: Park lodge loved by baboons reopens to human guests (North County Times, February 8, 2004)
• Tourism Comes of Age But Some Ugandans Do Not Even Know Where the National Parks Are Located (Kampala Monitor, November 28, 2002)

   Multi-Species

              Africa

• Africa's appetite for wild animals increases (CNN, August 2, 2000)
• Kenya Wants More Game Animals Protected (allAfrica.com, October 12, 2002)
• Madagascar to swap debt for nature (CNN, September 15, 2003)
• Making deals with loggers in effort to save rain forest (Washington Post, December 6, 2001)
• Massacre of Congo's endangered wildlife continues amid official complacency (AFP, October 27, 2003)
• Massive Die-Off of Great Apes Reported in Africa (National Geographic News, February 6, 2003)
• Saving man's distant cousin (BBC News, August 13, 2001)

              Asia

• Focus: Harmonising ecology protection and industrialisation (Gulf News, April 28, 2003)
• Himalayan state takes stock of its agro monkeys (The Age, Australia, February 22, 2004)
• Illegal logging perceived as cause of Indonesia's devastating flooding (eTaiwan News, November 6, 2003)
• Indochina primates faces extinction (Associated Press, June 3, 2001)
• Primates Barely Hanging On (New York Times, July 29, 2001)
• State facing major biodiversity loss (Assam Tribune, December 7, 2002)
• They're Logging Your Rain Forest! (International Wildlife, July/August 2000)
• Vietnam arrested six hunters for killing endangered monkeys (TerraDaily, October 6, 2003)
• Vietnam's Primate Refuge (ABC News, April 26, 1999)

              South America

• Human Expansion Threatens Brazilian Amazon Forests
• New green corridor creates Brazilian "super-park" (Reuters, UK, September 16, 2003)
• Rain Forest Expert Saves His Amazon "Neighborhood" (National Geographic News, December 17, 2002)
• State of Amazonas safeguards world's richest biodiversity with six new protected areas (EurekAlert, September 10, 2003)

          Species-Specific

              Baboon (Papio)

• Farmers want baboon on the menu (BBC News, May 20, 1999)
• Moving The Pumphouse Gang (by Shirley Strum, International Wildlife, May/June, 1998)

              Bonobo (Pan)

• Balancing Wildlife Conservation with Human Survival (Inter Press Service News Agency, October 11, 2003)
• Bonobos' threat: hungry humans (Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 2001)
• The plight of the great apes (ABC Science Show, May 27, 2002)

              Chimpanzee (Pan)

• Ape alarm in West Africa (BBC News, September 17, 2002)
• Budongo Forest Chimpanzee Killed (AllAfrica.com, May 20, 2003)
• Census finds 5,000 chimpanzees in Uganda (South African Independent, January 21, 2003)
• Hanging in the balance (Telegraph, UK, December 13, 2003)
• Logging Sets Off an Apparent Chimp War (New York Times, May 13, 1997)
• Primate expert painting grim picture of chimps (San Jose Mercury News, October 12, 2003)
• The last of their kind (Chimps in the Goualougo Triangle in Congo, Smoky Mountain News, January 22, 2003)

              Colobus (Procolobus)

• Looking for Lost Monkeys (by W. Scott McGraw, Anthropology Insider, Ohio State University, 2000)

              Gibbon (Hylobates)

• Endangered apes sing out in Vietnam (Eastern black-crested gibbons, BBC News, April 2, 2002)
• Endangered black-capped gibbon population on rise in China (English.eastday.com, December 12, 2002)
• Gibbons call out from the great apes' shadows (Independent Online, September 18, 2002)
• Twenty troupes of Shi ki gibbon found in Dakrong sanctuary (Viet Nam News Agency, December 15, 2003)
• White-handed gibbon threatened (Bangkok Post, January 26, 2004)

             Golden monkey (Pygathrix)

• Golden monkeys hope for survival in "Year of Monkey" (China View, January 22, 2004)

             Gorilla (Gorilla)

• Animal Health: Gorillas and human diseases (UPI, March 3, 2003)
• Biggest peril gorillas face is extinction from hunting (Toledo Blade, December 11, 2000)
• Bwindi Gorillas Form New Group (AllAfrica.com, September 29, 2003)
• Countries find common ground to protect world's rarest gorilla (EurekAlert, September 17, 2003)
• Death for the great apes (Scotsman.com, July 27, 2003)
• Despite odds, little-known Grauer's gorillas persist in central Africa (Wildlife Conservation Society release, April 28, 1998)
• Extinction looms over mountain gorilla (Independent Online, October 17, 2002)
• Gorillas' friend wins global award (BBC News, April 23, 2001)
• Gorillas go into virtual reserve (Nature, November 11, 2002)
• Gorillas in Danger from Poaching and Ebola (Animal News Center, July 28, 2003)
• Gorillas make home in 'impenetrable' forest' (National Geographic News, March 8, 2001)
• Gorilla Tourism On Hold (ABC News, March 5, 1999)
• Hopes rise for mountain gorillas (BBC News, October 17, 2002)
• In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land (ENN, September 26, 2001; Interview with Amy Vedder)
• Interpol to probe gorilla poaching (allAfrica.com, December 17, 2002)
• Joy in Rwanda: Signing On With the Gorillas (Article about Amy Vedder and Bill Weber, New York Times, January 15, 2002)
• Meet the relatives (Telegraph.co.uk, October 28, 2003)
• The Misty Future of Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas (Washington Post, April 30, 1995)
• Mountain gorillas at risk (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, December 15, 2003)
• Poaching for baby gorillas turns deadly (CNN, November 30, 2002)
• Poaching of Mountain Gorillas on the Rise (Animal News Center Wildlife News, January 13, 2003)
• Preserving lives, 1 gorilla at a time (Toledo Blade, December 12, 2000)
• Rwanda arrests four for stealing rare gorilla (MSNBC, November 7, 2003)
• Rwanda jails 9 for killing rare gorillas (Associated Press, February 5, 2003)
• Rwanda tries to lure tourists (The Mirror, UK, September 9, 2003)
• Scientists Count Rare Mountain Gorillas (Newsday, October 6, 2003)
• Simple aid to gorillas pays off: babies in the bamboo (New York Times, March 6, 2001)
• Soldiers in the Gorilla War (International Wildlife, Jan/Feb, 1999)
• Space Age Plan to Save Gorillas (BBC, October 3, 2001)
• Survey to be Launched to Verify Existence of Previously Unrecorded Sub-Populations of Critically Endangered Cross River Gorilla (Environmental News Network, April 15, 2004)
• UN failing to save apes from extinction (The Scotsman, November 23, 2003)
• U.N. Launches Gorilla Conservation Campaign (Abc News, May 21, 2001)
• WWF worried over gorillas (allAfrica.com, December 17, 2002)
• Vedder: Saving gorillas benefits all in war-torn Rwanda (Ithaca Journal, March 11, 2004)
• World's mountain gorilla population is up in census (Environmental News Network, January 20, 2004)

              Langur

• A crusade to save a rare species (San Jose Mercury News, March 4, 2003)
• Vietnam scientists breed world's most endangered primate (Channelnewsasia.com, November 6, 2003)
• Vietnam's Vanishing Primates (New York Times, July 28, 2002)

              Lemur (Lemur)

• Attractive tree ISO lemur to start a family (Science News, July 31, 1999)
• Duke University Lemurs Are Released Into Wilds of Madagascar (ScienceDaily, November 18, 1997)
• For the Love of Lemurs (Audubon Magazine, 2000)
• Losing Lovelorn Lemurs (ABC News, November 1999)

               Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus)

• Golden primates makes a comeback (Golden lion tamarin, BBC News, April 4, 2001)
• National reserve for golden monkeys set up Tibet (Shanghai Daily, September 24, 2003)

                Macaque (Macaca)

• Central Sulawesi macaque monkeys on the brink of extinction (Jakarta Post, May 7, 2002)
• Gibraltar throws wrench in researcher's monkey business (Chicago Sun-Times, November 21, 2003)
• Monkeys threaten New Guinea's wildlife (Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2001)

                Mandrill (Mandrillus)

• African Drills' Social Instincts Make Them Prey to Poachers (ABC News, September 11, 2001)
• Conservation group tracks elusive mandrills (CNN, January 12, 1999)

              Mouse lemur (Microcebus)

• Is This the Smallest Primate on Earth? (National Geographic News, June 27, 2003)

              Muriqui (Brachyteles)

• Professor's passion helps protect endangered primates (Interview with Karen Strier, Wisconsin Week, October 25, 2000)

               Orangutan (Pongo)

• Economics Threaten Orangutans (ABC News/Christian Science Monitor, June 3, 1999)
• Explorer's Notebook: Orangutans headed toward "catastrophe" (National Geographic Today, November 23, 2001)
• An eye on the future for orangutans (Taipei Times, January 26, 2004)
• How to be an Orangutan (International Wildlife, January-February 1997)
• Malaysia makes ape death arrest (BBC News, August 26, 2003)
• The Nature Conservancy Finds Population of Wild Orangutans (November 20, 2002 press release)
• Orang-utan catastrophe looms (Sydney Morning Herald, January 12, 2004)
• Orangutans losing battle for survival (National Geographic News, March 6, 2001)
• Orang-utans 'may die out by 2025' (BBC News, January 12, 2004)
• Rehab the only start for Borneo apes (Independent, South Africa, January 25, 2004)
• Saving the Orangutan, Preserving Paradise (New York Times, March 21, 2000)
• Study: Orangutans may die out in 20 years (CNN, September 30, 2003)
• Two decades, and counting: The old man of the forest is facing a quick demise (Independent, UK, January 12, 2004)
• Why couple are swinging to the rescue (Newcastle Evening Chronicle, September 17, 2002)
• WWF Malaysia disputes orang utans no more in 20 years (Daily Express, Sabah, Malaysia, January 13, 2004)

                Pygmy Loris (Nycticebus)

• Furry Primates at Risk (About the pygmy loris, ABC News, May 8, 2001)

                Sifaka (Propithecus)

• Newly discovered primate in grave danger (Wildlife News, March 3, 2001; about Propithecus marshi)

                Tamarin (Saguinus)

• Conservationists Fight to Save Tiny Colombian Monkey (National Geographic News, May 27, 2003)

                Tarsier (Tarsius)

• A Fool for Tarsiers (International Wildlife, May/June 2000)

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