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Primates
Orang utans and other primates
conservation issues, status, threats, efforts, discussions
see also wildlife trade, global
biodiversity loss
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Equatorial Guinea bans hunting and eating
monkeys
Yahoo News 8 Nov 07
Rare Bearded Monkeys Discovered in Kenya
Zoe Alsop National Geographic 5 Nov 07
Report: Primates in danger of extinction
By Michael Casey, AP Environmental Writer
Yahoo News 26 Oct 07
Indian capital can't cope with monkey
menace, mayor says Yahoo News 22 Oct 07
Bounty on Cambodian monkeys terrorising
tourists
Straits Times 29 Sep 07
Malaysia returns four orangutans to Indonesia
Yahoo News 28 Sep 07
Possible open season on monkeys?
Elizabeth John New Straits Times 17 Aug 07
Malaysia Seizes 900 Monkeys From Wildlife
Poachers PlanetArk 10 Jul 07
Endangered monkeys discovered in Vietnam
By Michael Casey, AP Yahoo News 3 Jul 07
Palm Oil Puts Squeeze on Asia's Endangered
Orangutan PlanetArk 29 May 07
Orang utans heading home
The Star 24 May 07
Malaysia plans forest recovery to conserve
orangutan
Yahoo News 7 May 07
Two rescued Indonesian orangutans give
birth
Yahoo News 18 Mar 07
Illegal logging threatens endangered
orangutans: UN
by Karen Calabria Yahoo News 6 Feb 07
Indonesian Minister warns company for
posing threat to 1,600 orangutans Antara 25 Jan 07
Rare orang utan returns home Sim Bak
Heng
The New Straits Times 14 Dec 06
Some 200 orangutans ready for release
in Borneo forest
Yahoo News 13 Dec 06
Endangered Gorillas Prosper in Heart
of Africa
Story by Marie-Louise Gumuchian PlanetArk 14 Dec 06
Ebola has Killed 5,000 Gorillas, Study
Suggests
Story by Maggie Fox PlanetArk 8 Dec 06
Thailand to send 48 orangutan home to
Indonesia
Antara 21 Nov 06
Indonesia forest fires, attacks kill
1,000 orangutans
Yahoo News 3 Nov 06
Beaufort's Proboscis Monkey
By Muammar Kamarudin Bernama 29 Aug 06
Javanese long-tailed monkeys threatened
with extinction
Antara 19 Aug 06
Jane Goodall Institute Advances First
'Geoblog' Featuring 'Chimp Soap Opera' By Jane Goodall Institute ENN
27 Jul 06
Malaysian state to log orangutan
habitats
Yahoo News 16 Jul 06
Socializing Helped Ebola Wipe Out Gorillas
- Study
Story by Maggie Fox Planet Ark 11 Jul 06
Bushmeat "Sold in Secret European, US
Markets"
PlanetArk 5 Jul 06
Uganda Says Development Can Protect
Great Apes
PlanetArk 27 Jun 06
Three New Lemurs Take a Bow in Madagascar
Story by Ed Stoddard PlanetArk 21 Jun 06
Booming bushmeat trade threat to Africa
wildlife
By Antoine Lawson, Reuters Yahoo News 12 Jun 06
Shoppers' thirst for palm oil threatens
to wipe out orangutan
By Martin Hickman The Independent 23 May 06
New Monkey Species is More Unique Than
Thought
Story by Maggie Fox PlanetArk 12 May 06
Genes record orangutans' decline
By Rebecca Morelle BBC 23 Jan 06
Hundreds of orang-utans captured or killed
each year in Kalimantan, new report show WWF and TRAFFIC websites
6 Sep 05
Apes 'extinct in a generation'
By Richard Black BBC News website environment correspondent BBC News
website, 1 Sep 05
Poverty Will Make the Great Apes History World’s First Atlas of Great Apes
reveals human struggle behind apes’ plight UNEP website, 1 Sep 05
Atlas Highlights Plight of World's Great Apes Story by Jeremy Lovell PlanetArk,
1 Sep 05 New
New lemurs found in Madagascar
BBC online, 9 Aug 05
More efficient law enforcement needed
to stop illegal orang-utan and gibbon trade in Indonesia TRAFFIC
website, 18 Jun 05
New Monkey Species Discovered in East
Africa
By John Roach National Geographic News website, 19 May 05
New African monkey discovered
By Helen Briggs BBC News website, 19 May 05
Primates on the Brink IUCN website,
7 Apr 05
Full article with links to PDF files of full report
Quarter of primates face abyss BBC News, 7 Apr 05
Wild primates of Singapore on the Wildlife Singapore website
Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
Banded Leaf Monkey (Presbytis femoralis)
Slow
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