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Conservation Spotlight
Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates
Analysis by Alejandro Estrada and Paul A. Garber. (This article originally appeared at Mongabay.com on 29 December 2019. Republished here under Creative Commons license, CC BY-ND 4.0) Alejandro Estrada of the Institute of Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Paul A. Garber of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois-Urbana […]
Engaging communities to protect orangutans: Interview with Liana Chua
Author: James Fair Conservation efforts have traditionally focused too much on wildlife and not enough on human communities, says social anthropologist Liana Chua. When it comes to orangutans, Chua says indigenous communities in Borneo are unlikely to share the concerns and priorities of international conservation organizations. Killing of orangutans by humans is a major threat to […]
We train Colombian woolly monkeys to be wild again – and maybe save them from extinction
Woolly monkeys are hard to miss in Colombia’s jungles. Now, they face extinction. Top Photo Credit: Mónica Ramírez Authors: Mónica Alejandra Ramírez, Universidad de los Andes ; Manuel Lequerica Tamara, University of Sydney, and Pablo Stevenson, Universidad de los Andes Colombia’s Andes Mountains used to be loaded with wildlife, including South America’s sole bear species, […]
Saving amphibians from a deadly fungus means acting without knowing all the answers
Pictured above: A male boreal toad waits for opportunities to mate near a Colorado mountain lake. Photo by Brittany Mosher, CC BY-ND Article by: Brittany A. Mosher, Colorado State University; Brian Gerber, University of Rhode Island, and Larissa Bailey, Colorado State University The calls of frogs on warm nights in the spring are a welcome […]
Getting there: The rush to turn the Amazon into a soy transport corridor
The Amazon’s rivers once were sufficient for commerce; now international commodities traders want to build roads, railways and industrial waterways thru the Amazon’s heart. By Sue Branford and Maurício Torres Top photo by Mauricio Torres: The Bunge commodities terminal in Miritituba on the Tapajós River. Tapajós basin fishermen have complained that the Miritituba port has polluted […]
200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly
Estimates show that the illegal domestic and international trade in Peruvian primates is dramatically diminishing threatened primate species. By Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa. This article originally appeared on Mongabay.com. (Republished under Published underCreative Commons BY-NC-ND). Peru has 71 primate species, 8 of which are endemic — all are at risk from trafficking; hunters often target the most endangered […]
Science-bound, Adventure-driven
The exciting new face of nature conservation science By Kristina Aluzaite As intense morning rays light up the majestic faces and ridges of Nepal’s Khumbu valley, a group of mountaineers armed with ice gear and thick down jackets stand on a 20,000′ ice and rock giant: Lobuche East. They set up a rappel station on the edge […]
Let’s Chase Chimpanzees Together
How Chimp&See is making that possible By Kristina Aluzaite Chimpanzee photograph by Thomas Lersch, distributed under a CC BY- 2.5 license What do an animal in a forest, a Face on Mars and a 3D structure of a protein have in common? They all can be spotted and deciphered more efficiently by the human eye […]