Despite Found Gorillas, Other Primates Still Endangered
Even though 125,000 lowland gorillas were just recently discovered, that doesn’t mean that the primate problem is over. There are other species which are still on the endangered list, and it doesn’t look like that will be changing any time soon.
In Asia, for example, almost 75% of the primate species are listed as being endangered. They’ve been (and still are) hunted for food by humans and the tropical forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate due to Palm oil plantations . It’s wiping out their homes and giving them nowhere to go.
Conservationists and others who care about wildlife find that the news is somewhat depressing, and there is little that can be done to stop these kinds of things from happening without making some serious changes.
Humans must stop encroaching into forests, because it drives primates out, and they must stop hunting them for food. Just making some small changes could go a long way toward stopping the extinction of primates around the world.
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Endangered Animals, Environment.
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Comment from Eric Bronson
Time: August 19, 2008, 4:59 am
One of my favorite quotes says it all
“Man in his misguidance has powerfully interfered with nature. He has devastated the forests, and thereby even changed the atmospheric conditions and the climate. Some species of plants and animals have become entirely extinct through man, although they were essential in the economy of Nature. Everywhere the purity of the air is affected by smoke and the like, and the rivers are defiled. These and other things are serious encroachments upon Nature, which men nowadays entirely overlook but which are of the greatest importance, and at once show their evil effect not only upon plants but upon animals as well, the latter not having the endurance and power of resistance of man.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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