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Examples of problem primates: Humans and primates often come into conflict,
especially when it comes to human food supplies.
Click here to watch a baboon raiding a truck full of bananas and pineapples.
Video by Ian Redmond.

Le Groupe de Travail Primates Problèmatique.

The Problem Primate Working Group, In collaboration with People and Wildlife, creating conservation solutions for living together.

People & Wildlife

Human and non-human primates sometimes cause each other problems. Some species of primates are opportunistic in their foraging and when they come across human crops or food supplies this creates conflict. On the other hand, when humans destroy their habitat or with the best intentions approach so close that disease transmission can occur, we cause them problems. Solutions to these problems are being tried and tested wherever they occur but there is a need for better dissemination of the results.

The Problem Primate Working Group, looks at all non-human primates coming into conflict with people, not just apes. Anyone with experience of problem primates and solutions that they would like to share please email .

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When gorillas find a banana plant they tear it apart to eat the nutritious pith which does not endear them to banana farmers.  In this case Mugaruka is eating a banana plant growing wild near the edge of Kahuzi Biega National Park, DRC.


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Science news & articles relating to the Problem Primate Working Group.
How To: Protect your livelihood from wild animals

JOHANNESBURG, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) - People and wildlife have never been in greater competition for limited resources as human populations invade shrinking natural habitats in a fight for living space, food and water. In this vignette of a planet-wide battle, IRIN looks at how to keep elephants away from your crops and raiding monkeys out of your food stores.


http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89916

22/07/2010
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Best Practice Guidelines for Mitigating Human - Great Ape Conflict

The IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group has published a new set of guidelines on the prevention and mitigation of conflict between humans and great apes. Presented as part of the Best Practice series for great ape conservation, this report is designed to help researchers and wildlife managers understand the causes of human - great ape conflict, and find equitable ways to resolve it.


http://www.primate-sg.org/BP.conflict.htm

22/07/2010
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Great Apes Are Losing Ground (3/2010)


Southeast Asia a center for illegal wildlife trade


I'm going to Indonesia soon, to write about the current plight of orangutans who are losing habitat to palm oil plantations. And to learn more about the illegal trade in wildlife, especially endangered primates.


If you regularly read the website of "Traffic: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, you know that southeast Asia is the epicenter of the illegal trade in protected wildlife. The Chatuchak weekend market in Bangkok is said to be the single largest market on the planet where wildlife is traded illegally. That's one place I'm going.


Sally Kneidel Ph.D.--


http://www.basilandspice.com/living-green/great-apes-are-losing-ground-32010.html


10/03/2010
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50-year countdown to an apeless world

The Washington Post recently describedPaul Raffaele as the last of the great old-fashioned adventure writers.

It's true: he's hacked his way through jungles, tracked fierce animals and sought out modern-day pirates, slavers, evencannibals. Yet he dislikes the label. It's not that he minds being called old-fashioned but he has never sought adventure just for the sake of it.
"There has to be a point to it," he says. When he decided to write about the great apes, there was a very definite point.
Every sort of great ape is in trouble, their habitats dwindling and their numbers plummeting. "People and politicians simply don't seem to get how serious their situation is," Raffaele says.


by Stephanie Pain


http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/02/stephanie-pain-contributor-the-washington.php

25/02/2010
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Saving Gorillas, Elephants Starts With Understanding Their Human Neighbors

Science Daily


Understanding local human cultures is key
to preserving gorillas, elephants and other wildlife in African parks
and reserves, according to new research from Purdue University.

"Conservation efforts and the management of protected areas are often
designed with the best intentions, but sometimes supporting scientific
data is missing or incorrect assumptions are made about a local  
culture or even the outsiders or trade that plays a role in the area," said
Melissa Remis, a professor of anthropology who studies gorillas.
"Conservation isn't just about protecting wildlife, you also need to
consider the human dimension such as how local hunting technologies or
even migration can change how land is used."


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100113172140.htm

13/01/2010
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Best Practice Guidelines for Mitigating Human - Great Ape Conflict

The IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group has published a new set of guidelines on the prevention and mitigation of conflict between humans and great apes. Presented as part of the Best Practice series for great ape conservation, this report is designed to help researchers and wildlife managers understand the causes of human - great ape conflict, and find equitable ways to resolve it.

28/12/2009
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The following organisations are involved in the Problem Primate Working Group.


People and Wildlife
Problem Primate Working Group Secretariat
WildCRU, University of Oxford
Tubney House, Tubney,
OX13 5QL,
United Kingdom


Phone: 01865 393110/100
Web (en): www.peopleandwildlife.org.uk
Email: click for contact form

Born Free Foundation
Will Travers CEO
3 Grove House
Foundry Lane
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 5PL
Phone: +44 (0)1403 240 170
Fax: +44 (0)1403 327 838
Web (en): www.bornfree.org.uk
Email: click for contact form

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK (BOS UK)
Michelle Desilets
8 Temple Square
Aylesbury
Bucks
HP20 2QH
UK

Phone: 08456 521528
Web (en): www.savetheorangutan.org.uk
Email: click for contact form

International Primate Protection League (U.K.)
Gilmore House
166 Gilmore Road
London SE13 5AE
Phone: +44 (0)20 8297 2129
Fax: +44 (0)20 8297 2099
Web (en): www.ippl-uk.org
Email: click for contact form

Sumatran Orangutan Society
Helen Buckland
The Old Music hall
106-108 Cowley Road
Oxford OX4 1JE

Phone: +44 (0) 1865 403341
Web (en): www.orangutans-sos.org
Email: click for contact form
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