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Cuddly animals don't persuade poor people to back conservation

10 July 2008

Erik Meijaard & Douglas Sheil. 2008. Cuddly animals don't persuade poor people to back conservation. Nature 454, 159 (10 July 2008) Read more...

Distribution and conservation status of the orang-utan (Pongo spp.) on Borneo and Sumatra: how many remain?

10 July 2008

Wich et al. 2008. Distribution and conservation status of the orang-utan (Pongo spp.) on Borneo and Sumatra: how many remain? Oryx 42:329-339 Cambridge University Press… Read more...

Attack in DR Congo's gorilla park

9 July 2008

Two people have been killed and three injured in an attack in a park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations-backed radio station… Read more...

Guinea Sanctuary Returns Chimpanzees to Forests in West Africa in Landmark Reintroduction Project

8 July 2008

Fifteen West African chimpanzees that were confiscated from poachers and illegal traders have been reintroduced back into the forests in Guinea, the first attempt to… Read more...

Is oil palm agriculture really destroying tropical biodiversity?

4 July 2008

Lian Pin Koh & David S. Wilcove. 2008. Is oil palm agriculture really destroying tropical biodiversity? Conservation Letters 1:60-64. 4 Jul 2008 Read more...

The beginning of the end for chimpanzee experiments?

1 July 2008

Knight, A. (2008). The beginning of the end for chimpanzee experiments? Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, 3: 16 http://www.peh-med.com/ Read more...

Spanish parliament to extend rights to apes

25 June 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL256586320080625 Parliament's environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic… Read more...

Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees

18 June 2008

Full article can be downloaded from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=762232815&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6baaf70a8248c31de0bf5eb436117fec Nunez-Iturri, G., O. Olsson, and H. F. Howe. 2008. Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees in Amazonian… Read more...