More than half of the world's primates on endangered species list
More than half the world’s primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction, international experts warned on Tuesday.
The population crunch is the result of large-scale habitat destruction – particularly the burning and clearing of tropical forests – as well as the hunting of primates for food and the illegal wildlife trade.
Species long known to be at risk, including the
Sumatran orangutan, have been joined on the most endangered list for the first time by the Philippine tarsier and the Lavasoa dwarf lemur from Madagascar, scientists meeting in Singapore said.
“This research highlights the extent of the danger facing many of the world’s primates,” Christoph Schwitzer, a leading primatologist and director of conservation at Bristol Zoological Society in Britain, said in a statement.
“We hope it
will focus people’s attention on these lesser-known primate species, some of which most people will probably have never heard of.”
This includes the Lavasoa dwarf lemur – a species only discovered two years ago – and the
Roloway monkey from Ghana and the Ivory Coast, which experts say “are on the very verge of extinction”.
Full list of primates in endangered list:
http://www.theguardian.com/environme...d-species-list
recent haze caused by Indonesia is driving this species to extinction. how can humans be so cruel? 