Half of all primate species face extinction

We're all on that extinction list if we can't turn things around quickly.

I posted this late I guess. Very sad story. This group has some info up all week from the conference - www.conservation.org

There's good news too from the Congo on more gorillas found. Silver lining, i suppose

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/science/05apes.html?ref=africa

It would be weird to see us on that list.

Very disturbing

What is the percentage of species that they even know exist? They find new ones every day...right? I sometimes wonder how they "know" what is going to be lost when they don't even know what we have.

Plus can't we de-evolve some people. Don't they have a machine for that? That'll save the planet's wildlife.

It's easy to take this statistic out of context, but the truth, as any non-alarmist biologist would tell you, is that 30 percent of these primates face extinction because they're at the end of their evolutionary loop. They're just not in nature's plans for the future. Much like the panda, we can do everything we can to keep them around, but if they're destined for extinction that's something we need to face.

Before anyone responds to this message with some bile and "lala I'm not listening to statistics that don't support my own opinion," I do concede that that does leave 18 percent of primates who are going to die out as a result of pollution and deforestation. 18 percent of an entire genus of animals facing extinction by human hands is still too much. The question becomes, how can we sustain these animals without hindering the developing nations who are no doubt competing for the land on which these primates live?

It may also be interesting to consider that England once had boars, wolves, bears, and a variety of other animals the elite hunted to extinction and the impoverished ate out of desperation.

I think humans are at the end of their evolutionary loop. Besides, they just proved chimpanzees can recall information faster than students at Berkeley:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/03/AR2007120300865.html

Guess we're going to have to get good at change. We adapted so easily to the industrial age...or should it be called the age of waste. Recovery from this time might be a 12-step process?

Species go extinct. Except for an extreme few, thats what they do. However, humans are creating a mass extinction right now and I think that is going to expedite our own extinction. To think we are above the natural world and insulated from the risk of extinction is foolish.

How long before our own obituary: Homo sapien - the great consumer, of land, of resources, of other species.

what does this have anything to do with POLITICS? Is everything polictics these days?

Hehehe. I thought it said 'half of all *pirates* face extinction'. I was about to be very concerned about Johnny Depp.

Human are next. We need to make a change.

That monkey in the picture is so cool, we need to see some of ourselves in Primates, as we are ourselves, then maybe we'd think twice about cutting down their homes. It's easier to empathise with a monkey than an insect or fish...

I guess planet of the apes is out of reach now.

it's called evolution, people. Get used to it. The moment Homo Sapien started multiplying, it was only a matter of time before the things we evolved from started dying.

God and Charles Darwin are sitting at a bar..........

Everyone ends up laughing in the end.

why does it always have to be the good animls? why can't worthless animals like mosquitos risk extinction?

stop cutting down the rain forest and stuff like that, if we find alteratives to everything, like paper, power, and fuels ,then we might just save this planet. or not.

awww bless 'em they just wanna monkey around

i dont know about you guys but... this primate looks lot like my black roommate....no im being serious, i'll try to take a picture of him and post it up.

Sad, Sad, Sad!

ya, check out the new primate species finds lately, i just posted one...

Wake up world! Man is the 193 biological species of ape. Man has destroyed everything in his wake. Man, is now the only species on the planet in critical danger of his own existance!!!

Whactel